Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:21:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Primary or Logical Partition Message-ID: <199606191221.IAA24510@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199606190135.SAA11717@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 18, 96 06:35:39 pm
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> > > Can FreeBSD be installed on a Extended Logical Partition of a hard > > drive? It seems like when I use FreeBSD fdisk to create a partition, > > it automatically creates a primary partition. Is there a way to make > > it be a logical partition? Thank you very much! > > DOS can not boot an OS from an extended partition. > > There are some boot managers that can do this. I believe that the > one that comes with FreeBSD isn't one of them. > > If you have the OS/2 boot manager, you may be able to make this boot. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > Nope, Terry... The OS/2 boot manager didn't help when I tried to do it here. Dos has to be primary (it's stupid), FreeBSD 2.1.0 has to be primary (I wish id didn't -- anyone know if the snaps require it?). OS/2 will work fine from a "logical" partiton. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win95 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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