From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 16:17:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB0F37B43C for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA19617; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:17:29 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <024601c0c9f0$1ad6e980$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: Cc: References: <003801c0c6f0$157d2e70$a86657ca@client2> Subject: Re: freebsd in dos extended ? Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:17:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I haven't tried it, but this freeware boot loader claims to allow booting to > extended partitions--as many as you'd like: > http://www.xosl.org/ I'm using xosl and yes, it is able to boot from extended partitions. The problem is: FreeBSD doesn't support installation into an extended partition. Nor does FreeBSD's fdisk support extended partitions. I'm using extended partitions as /usr within FreeBSD but had to create the partition tables by hand. If buying a new disk is an option: Do it! Will save you a lot of time. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message