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Date:      Wed, 04 Sep 2002 20:20:45 -0500
From:      Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca>
To:        Hendrick Chan <ku@mydestiny.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can freebsd be installed in an extended partition?
Message-ID:  <20020905012044.GA1823@lulu.bad.dog>
In-Reply-To: <000001c25420$57113f70$09f208ca@homebj37l7ua93>
References:  <000001c25420$57113f70$09f208ca@homebj37l7ua93>

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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 <robin@damm.ca>


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