Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:11:25 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting started with -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020228011125.E48231@localhost> In-Reply-To: <nospam-1014857913.95086@bambi.gbch.net>; from gjb@gbch.net on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM %2B1000 References: <20020227102056.A21989@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <3C7D25C3.85B66088@herbelot.com> <20020227141328.A65111@blackhelicopters.org> <20020227142331.F22223@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <20020227142613.A65309@blackhelicopters.org> <nospam-1014857913.95086@bambi.gbch.net>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > Michael Lucas wrote [top post put down where it belongs]: > > | On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote: > | > Thanks for the help - much appreciated. > | > > | > I guess I'm misunderstanding the primary disk partitions and their > | > types - I seem to recall PCs getting cranky when there are multiple > | > primary partitions of the same type? Or is it that WINDOWS gets cranky > | > when it sees that? > | > | That would probably be Windows. I'm doing exactly this, without > | trouble. > > No, there's no problem doing this with Windows (at least with > Windows-ME) -- I have Win-ME on my laptop (so I can say "it > works under Windows" when something is broken) with two FreeBSD > partitions: 4.3-R (which works) and -CURRENT (in which PCMCIA is > completely broken). But booting any of the 3 OSes works fine. > > Greg Not quite the same thing, but IME Windows (at least up to Win2K), *really* likes to have the first partition table entry for itself, and to live at the start of the disk. I had a horrible time getting W2K to install at the slow end of the disk on this machine -- where it belongs, as I use it perhaps 5% of the time -- manual editing of the partition table was needed in the end :-( I've certainly had machines with multiple, primary Windows partitions before now, with no obvious problems. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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