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Subject: Re: extended partition?
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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