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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: partition option for freebsd
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95.970726152227.62698A-100000@baserv.uci.kun.nl> from Hans van Reenen at "Jul 26, 97 03:44:20 pm"
To: H.vanReenen@UCI.KUN.NL (Hans van Reenen)
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:22:42 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yet, I am preparing to install FreeBSD on my computer.
> 
> The harddisk (ide) is partioned under DOS als follows;
> 
> 	Partition	Status	Type		System 
> 
> 	c:1		A	primary dos	fat16
> 	  2			extended dos	fat16
> 
> So, partition #2 is an extented partion divided in 5 logical partitions.
> 
> 	D: (win95)
> 	E: (nt4.0)
> 	F: (applications)
> 	G: (free)
> 	H: (data)
> 
> My question is: How can I choose (seen by DOS) logical partion G: to
> install there FREEBSD ?

You can't. FreeBSD needs only supports primary partitions for its file
systems. You *can* mount logical partitions from FreeBSD though, for
example to read and write to msdos `filesystems'.
> 
> The FDISK partition editor on the FreeBSD bootflop shows me the following
> scheme:
> 
> OFFSET	SIZE	END	NAME	PTYPE	DESC		SUBTYPE
> 
> 0	63	62	-	6	unused		0	
> 63	56385	56447	wd0s1	2	fat		4
> 56448	4943232	4999679	wd0s2	4	extended	5
> 4999680 10080	5009759	-	6	unused		0
> 
> I'am a novice user so it confused me a lot. In the above scheme I have
> to decide where I install FreeBSD. Where can I find "dos" partition "G:" ?
> 
> Or is it not possible to install FreeBSD in any logical partition ?

Yes, I mean no :-) (see above)

> 
> Thanks in advance.
>  
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