This text is too outdated, today, sysinstall(8) has no problems creating a

partition "d," and any tool should work on it fine.

PR:		76094

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml

@@ -1209,11 +1209,8 @@ total 530
 	      <entry><literal>d</literal></entry>
 
 	      <entry>Partition <literal>d</literal> used to have a special
-		meaning associated with it, although that is now gone.  To
-		this day, some tools may operate oddly if told to work on
-		partition <literal>d</literal>, so
-		<application>sysinstall</application> will not normally create
-		partition <literal>d</literal>.</entry>
+		meaning associated with it, although that is now gone and
+		<literal>d</literal> may work as any normal partition.</entry>
 	    </row>
 	  </tbody>
 	</tgroup>