From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 05:55:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA12749 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 05:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from pds-gateway.pdspc.com (pds-gateway.pdspc.com [207.170.17.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA12744 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 05:55:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khanson@pdspc.com) Received: by pds-gateway.pdspc.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 07:54:31 -0600 Message-ID: <91DD7FDA88E4D011BED00000C0DD87E7173169@pds-gateway.pdspc.com> From: Kenny Hanson To: Questions for FreeBSD Subject: RE: Using Extended Partitions Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 07:54:30 -0600 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Batten [SMTP:BryanBatten@compuserve.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 12:55 AM > To: Julian Elischer > Cc: Bruce Evans; Questions for FreeBSD > Subject: Re: Using Extended Partitions > > partitions. And it now looks to me like the only way those statements > can > be understood as true is if there are DOS file systems on those > partitions > such that - if one were running DOS - they would be seen as D:, E:, > F:, and > so on. This seems to mean - to me, anyway, that one is restricted to > DOS > partitions only on secondary partitions. > Not exactly true... a while back I looked seriously into boot managers > so I > could boot several OS's from one hard disk (I managed to fit Win95, > DOS, > WinNT, and Linux all on one hard drive). In order to boot 95 and DOS > they > have to both lie on primary partitions. I found a nice little utility > that goes in > and changes an extended partition (with no logical drives defined!) > into a primary > partition by just editing the partition ID. This way, you can have up > to the MAX > of 4 primary partitions on a drive, much like using the linux fdisk or > freebsd disk > editor. In DOS/95/NT, all partitions still get C:, D:, E:, F:. > >