Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:41:30 -0500 From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Linux (and bootblocks) Message-ID: <379498AA.DA3685C@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <37931080.C5917A44@giovannelli.it> <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4> <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> <19990719095612.41282@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990719172747.A72625@freebie.lemis.com> <37931080.C5917A44@giovannelli.it> <4.2.0.58.19990719231734.043bd460@localhost>
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Brett Glass escribió: > > Yes, Red Hat will install in (and boot from) a logical drive in an extended > partition. This isn't that unusual; OS/2 has done it for years! In fact, > it's a good way to go, since with a boot manager that understands this scheme > you can have up to 23 OSes co-resident on one machine. > Oops.. I was going to say Brett was wrong, but I checked the OS/2 Warp 3 documentation and there is an example of exactly this. It is evidently a bootmanager trick, however OS/2's boot manger uses a partition for itself, something really undesirable. FWIW, I was unable to get a logical drive recognized by FreeBSD's installer, our fdisk only sees slices (PC partitions) but not logical drives in extended partitions. It would be great to be able to create a logical drive for FreeBSD. Also, over in hobbes there is an ext2fs IFS for OS/2, I'll give a try on changing it to UFS later on. Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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