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To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "demon" <hilbert@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD 4.4 into EXTENDED Partition
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> writes:

> Just to be clear; it *can* use "extended" partitions for disk space.
> It's just that the BIOS can't boot from them, and therefore the
> standard FreeBSD installer won't *install* into one.  In theory, you
> can get around this, but not with the standard installer.

Just to be clear: the BIOS can boot from them, as it does in many
people's Linux setups.  FreeBSD booting software and utils just don't
support it.  Probably because there is small reward for anyone who is
ABLE to change FreeBSD to DO so.  They don't need the capability much.

(FreeBSD would either have to be able (like Linux) to use the same
secondary-partitioning scheme as IBM did or FreeBSD would have to be
able to shoehorn its slices in, supporting a tertiary-partitioning
scheme.)

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