Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:52:23 +1000 From: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ix86/DOS extended partition support ... Message-ID: <20000329155222.A3700@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au>
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Hi,
I'm a linux user/developer interested in the xBSD OSes, and I'm wondering if
there is any plan to add support for DOS extended/logical partitions to FreeBSD.
I believe that this would be a worthwhile venture, as there are many reasons
that people would want to access extended logical partitions from FreeBSD.
In Linux, extended partitons are the only way to go (unless you want to have
one huge dodgy monolythic partition), especially if you want to run multiple
OSes. You have obviously already included support for basic DOS primary partition
tables, how much harder is an extended partition table?.
Currently, this is the only thing holding me back from using FreeBSD, but I think
I'll go ahead and install it anyway ...
NetBSD/OpenBSD don't include support for extended partitions, do they?
Thanks for the great OS, and keep up the good work ...
Timshel
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Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com> Second year Computer Science, RMIT
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