From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 31 13:23:59 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 13:23:54 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A6E37B400 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id gfmsaaaa for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 08:31:50 +1100 Message-ID: <3A4FA408.71DEB62@quake.com.au> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:24:24 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Boot ManagerQuestions References: <3A4E861B.D49F7EE1@quake.com.au> <00123104412603.01493@buffy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > DOS fdisk will allow only 4 partitions on a drive, only one of > > these can be a primary partition, the others have to be extended > > partitions... So long as you didnt create the DOS partitions with > > sysinstall it shouldn't care about them > > Correction:. You are allowed 4 primary partitions, one of which can be > extended and can contain logical partititons. Corrected... I had it around the wrong way... But sysinstall still shouldnt care so long as you are not using it to create them... Hmm its been a while since I have ever had more than one DOS partition they are only useful for running little diagnostic programs in... Or for a laptop to suspend to... On a laptop I dont really see why anyone would want to duel boot with windows, its not like you are going to be playing OpenGL games on a laptop, and IMO thats all windows is useful for... And that is slowly changing, since now Quake3 is ported to FreeBSD Im sure more games will follow! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message