From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 13:03:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29348 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29340 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:03:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10301; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:02:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:02:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Paul Winter cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting In-Reply-To: <364C8FF3.9A99B70B@virgin.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message