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Date:      Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:02:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Paul Winter <paul.winter2@virgin.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811131302230.20228-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <364C8FF3.9A99B70B@virgin.net>

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On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Paul Winter wrote:

> Seeing as only four primary partitions can be created with ease using a
> commercial product such as Partition Magic. In order to provide
> versitily so that more than say four Operting Systems may be installed
> and evaluted (UNIX, versions of Linux, NT etc) is it possible to reserve
> logical partitions where FreeBSD can be installed and booted from even
> though you can't boot directly into a logical partition (set active) But
> they can be made "Bootable", apparently?

No.  FreeBSD requires it's own slice.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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