From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 15:57:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA15498 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15491 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:57:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA22780; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:53:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607082253.PAA22780@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD into a logical partition To: k4ef0098@kiss.uni-lj.si (Damir Cifer) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:53:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Damir Cifer" at Jul 7, 96 01:05:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What I wonder is if it will be possible to install FreeBSD into a part of > the extended partition (logical partition) in the 2.2.0 release? Is it > perhaps already possible in the current snaps? Yes, you can install it there. You just can't boot it. This is a problem with the boot loader program not looking on extended partitions for bootable partitions. The OS/2 and NT boot loaders fix this problem (but understandably, we can't ship them with BSD). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.