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To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
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Subject: Re: Extended partitions
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:06:41AM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
> I understand that FreeBSD can't be installed to an extended partition,
> but can it read data in an extended partition? I'm doing some
> rearranging on my 8Gig drive, and I want more than four partitions on it
> to install both FreeBSD and Linux on it. It would be nice to have a
> shared partition between the two.
> 
> Follow up question: what's the best r/w filesystem to use that both
> FreeBSD and Linux can access?
> 
> David
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David,


	Check out the link I added below.  It helped me do just that.


http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/howto/mini/Linux+FreeBSD



Nitebirdz




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