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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: booting from extended slice
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"Brian T.Schellenberger" wrote:
> I consider this a major FreeBSD weakness but other O/S's don't care so much
> about primary vs. extended and FreeBSD only needs one partition--it'll
> subdivide the rest.

Actually, I can't think of one Microsoft or IBM OS that can
boot from extended partitions.

-- Terry

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