From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 05:27:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA10496 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 05:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA10491 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 05:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA24510; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:21:25 -0400 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199606191221.IAA24510@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Primary or Logical Partition To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:21:25 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606190135.SAA11717@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 18, 96 06:35:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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.