Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:53:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: k4ef0098@kiss.uni-lj.si (Damir Cifer) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD into a logical partition Message-ID: <199607082253.PAA22780@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960707010401.571A-100000@wet.kiss.uni-lj.si> from "Damir Cifer" at Jul 7, 96 01:05:37 am
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> What I wonder is if it will be possible to install FreeBSD into a part of > the extended partition (logical partition) in the 2.2.0 release? Is it > perhaps already possible in the current snaps? Yes, you can install it there. You just can't boot it. This is a problem with the boot loader program not looking on extended partitions for bootable partitions. The OS/2 and NT boot loaders fix this problem (but understandably, we can't ship them with BSD). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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