From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 18:23:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE2237B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E6E43E4A for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd6mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd6mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.216]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H1X004LFYH0XU@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:22:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml7so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.151]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H1X00M8RYG1RC@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:21:37 -0600 (MDT) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H1X00IS7YGZVO@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:22:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g851Kjs8001884; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 20:20:45 -0500 (CDT envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g851KjZV001883; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 20:20:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 20:20:45 -0500 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: can freebsd be installed in an extended partition? In-reply-to: <000001c25420$57113f70$09f208ca@homebj37l7ua93> To: Hendrick Chan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: Hendrick Chan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20020905012044.GA1823@lulu.bad.dog> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <000001c25420$57113f70$09f208ca@homebj37l7ua93> X-Authentication-warning: lulu.bad.dog: robin set sender to robin@damm.ca using -f Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:35:38PM +0800, Hendrick Chan wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > Can freebsd be installed in an extended partition? > No. FreeBSD needs to be installed into a primary partition. See section "2.2.3.1 Disk Layouts for the i386" in the FreeBSD Handbook for the details. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html -- Robin Damm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message