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Subject: Re: Help, please.
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Alfred Breull wrote:
> 
> :) It was a typo, alright, it is 1.1 GB.
> 
> But, thank you, I found the answer myself - after several days (of
> disappointment):
> 
> I run MS DOS, win98, Partition Magic in separate primary partitions
> and need an extra extended partition for sensible data.
> 
> Unfortunately, FreeBSD wants a primary partition and you cannot
> create 5 partitions ...
> 
> The extra DOS partition is required because I run go32 (for f2c) which
> uses memory win98 wants to keep to itself - even when installed as
> DOS/ win98 dualboot.
> 
> I'll de-install Partition Magic's bootmanager and see if the
> FreeBSD bootmanager can manage my stuff.

	I used to use the boot manager from PM (originally from OS/2 :) and
I've long since converted to OS-BS beta, available at
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/ .  If you can handle the one,
you can handle the other, and osbs has the advantage of not using up a
partition.

Good luck,

Doug
-- 
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