From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 20:02:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA25061 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:02:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from asgard.bga.com (asgard.bga.com [205.238.129.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA25054 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from faulkner@localhost) by asgard.bga.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA00274 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:02:40 -0600 (CST) Received: (from faulkner@localhost) by asgard.bga.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA00261 for faulkner@asgard.bga.com; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:02:07 -0559 (CST) Message-Id: <199602220401.WAA00261@asgard.bga.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD in the extended partition? To: faulkner@asgard.bga.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 22:02:07 -0559 (CST) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" In-Reply-To: <199602212238.QAA03899@asgard.bga.com> from "Boyd R. Faulkner" at Feb 21, 96 04:38:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Boyd R. Faulkner: > > > Here is a good one. Why can't you put another FreeBSD partition as > an extended partition. Obviously you couldn't boot from it but > could you add devices and disklabel it? > > Thanks, > Boyd Answer. Yes. You need linux fdisk to create the partitions and auto did not work ( I don't think ) but sho 'nuff, you can do it. devfs slot allocation fails for s5, s6 didn't complain. Bless the fellow who allowed disklabel -r -w sd2s5 Boyd -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner "The fates lead him who will; faulkner@asgard.bga.com Him who won't, they drag." http://asgard.bga.com/~faulkner Old Roman Saying -- Source: Joseph Campbell _____________________________________________________________________________