From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 0:55:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBB137C1BC for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bart.lateur@skynet.be) Received: from dialup252.gent.skynet.be (dialup252.gent.skynet.be [195.238.9.252]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D3A818527; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:55:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ix86/DOS extended partition support ... Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:54:01 GMT Organization: MediaMind Message-ID: <38e1d249.99304@relay.skynet.be> References: <20000329155222.A3700@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20000329155222.A3700@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:52:23 +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote: >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. I just tested it. I *can* access DOS extended partitions from within FreeBSD (3.4). AFAIK, you just can't boot FreeBSD from it, though. -- Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message