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To: Stanislav Grozev <tacho@orbitel.bg>
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Subject: Re: installing on a extended partition 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 22:33:58 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:30:22 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:33:58 +0200
> From: Stanislav Grozev <tacho@orbitel.bg>
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> Hi,
> 
> are there any special considerations to be taken, or is it at all possible
> to install FreeBSD 4.1.1 (or -current) entirely on an extended
> partition (slice)?

Short answer: no!

Longer answer: If the slice is not currently used by DOS/Windows, you
can delete any logical drives on it can be deleted in DOS FDISK and
then you can use the FreeBSD installation (sysinstall) package to
re-type the partition (slice) as type 165, FreeBSD and you can install
there.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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