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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:24:37 -0500
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, ZaiD Dashti <zaiddashti@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installation
Message-ID:  <oprkeufb0r0cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <200302100328.52916.kstewart@owt.com>
References:  <F708vWyu9kstC7tXjs50001965a@hotmail.com> <200302100328.52916.kstewart@owt.com>

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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:28:52 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote:

[snip]
> I have a couple of multi-boots configured that way. They go c- 
> drive/extended/freebsd.  It has worked since about 4.1.

Not about the infamous 1024th cylinder "limit," but the /extended/freebsd 
part -

I tried a couple of times to install FreeBSD 4-STABLE after Win2K after 
Win98.  When installing Win2K after Win98, MS automagically configures 
Win2K's installation partition as extended (apparently, even if W2K is 
installed on a different disk than W98).  Then I'd look at things with 
fdisk and it would show me Win2K's extended partition/slice going all the 
way to the end of the disk.  So I'd remove W2K and reinstall it, leaving a 
FreeBSD-sized gap between the end of W98 and the beginning of W2K.

Any special magic to install FreeBSD after an extended partition, or you 
just went about business as usual and can't figure what on earth I'm 
talking about?  ;)

Jud


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