Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:19:00 -0700 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: Omar Gani <daemons@inwind.it> Cc: bobread@ids.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win98+Linux+FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010424191900.B68464@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010412232022.00a4aec8@popmail.inwind.it>; from daemons@inwind.it on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:40:12PM %2B0200 References: <3AD5FF42.ABB4D8E1@ids.net> <5.0.2.1.0.20010412232022.00a4aec8@popmail.inwind.it>
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With some clever manipulation, you can have more than 4 partitions in a hard disk. But you can only have 4 of them setup at once. Its been some time ago, but the sequence went something like this: Setup DOS. Boot DOS. Use pfdisk to make snapshot #1 of the partition table. Setup OS #2. Reboot to DOS. Use pfdisk to make snapshot #2 of p table. Use pfdisk to restore snapshot #1 of p table. Reboot. Setup OS #3. Repeat as necessary. (Eventually build a boot menu for DOS.) I realize that its ugly. But some commercial products do similar things. [RC] On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:40:12PM +0200, Omar Gani wrote: > At 15.17 12/04/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >Looking for some advice. > > > >Can anyone offer advice? > > > >Much Thanks, > > > >Bob > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Keep in mind that you can't make more than 4 partitions in a > hard disk. So unless you put linux partitions on logical > DOS/win9X partition, you have to exactly 4 partition (DOS/win9X, > FreeBSD, Linux & Linux's SWAP). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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