Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:11:17 +0200 From: Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: Jorg Andersson <jorg_andersson@lavabit.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning for multiple systems Message-ID: <49F5D925.5040302@thanelange.no> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0904270238m2656dcdfi2da480e2ca77fa7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <49F4ABB3.6000808@prgmr.com> <ade45ae90904261445g719a7770va12416f434ec43ef@mail.gmail.com> <20090427002114.GA21041@rei> <d7195cff0904270238m2656dcdfi2da480e2ca77fa7e@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com skrev: > 2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson <jorg_andersson@lavabit.com>: >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: >>> I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all >> I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this >> still the case? > > They show up just fine here (8-current), > and I am fairly sure they were visible in > /dev when I was running 7.x > > The "big deal" is that you can't (easily) > install FreeBSD on a logical slice. > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3194 I've had my FreeBSD running from a logical slice for a while now. It's not too hard to do if you already have a working FreeBSD on one of the primary slices. To be able to boot the system I use a patched GRUB boot manager and a patched FreeBSD /boot/loader The tricky part is bootstrapping the system to get all this in place. Gyrd ^_^
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