From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 14:11:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFD237C101; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp2.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.17]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA13522; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:10:08 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e5TJZNH30365; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:35:23 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:35:23 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Siegbert Baude Cc: John Baldwin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <20000629223523.A30332@hades.hell.gr> References: <395893C7.FA2CFDD4@i-clue.de> <200006271755.KAA01718@john.baldwin.cx> <4.3.2.7.2.20000628212137.00a93610@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000628212137.00a93610@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de>; from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:29:33PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 09:29:33PM +0200, Siegbert Baude wrote: >>> Can I install FreeBSD on logical disk in extended partition? >> >> No. You need one DOS partition table entry, that is (in DOS >> parlance) partition 1-4. This translates to FreeBSD slice 0-3. > > Is this a *boot* problem for FreeBSD only, or is FreeBSD unable to > put ufs in a logical disc at all? Is it possible to use for example > /dev/ad0s9 for a FreeBSD-Filesystem? This topic has been discussed a couple of times (or more) in these lists. The so called "logical" drives are a hack that MS-DOS used to get over it's own limitation to handle gracefully more than 4 primary partitions. FreeBSD will happily mount one of these "logical" drives, but it can only boot from a primary partition. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > Find my public PGP key at: finger://keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr/ See the headers of this message for the key fingerprint. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message