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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:46:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Brandon C. Wood" <bwood@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: extended partition?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130214532.28180G-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970130124418.18092A-100000@adelbert0.Stanford.EDU>

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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Brandon C. Wood wrote:

> Can FreeBSD be installed on an extended partition only (to be booted with
> the OS/2 boot manager), or do the files need to have their own primary
> partition?

They need to be in their own partition type, not a DOS partition.  You
will need to split off some space or delete one of your DOS partitions to
make room for FreeBSD.

The OS/2 Boot Manager can boot FreeBSD fine, btw; I have it here.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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