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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Henrik Johansson wrote:

> Can FreeBSD be installed on a so called extended partition,
> or only on primary ones?

Neither; it requires it's own partition type.  You may place the archive
files on a PRIMARY partition and point the install program at it,
however; we call this a "DOS install" and is fully detailed in the install
documentation with the CD or at
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major