From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 7 22:10:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02881 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA02872 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA02275; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:03:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd002258; Sun Dec 7 22:02:54 1997 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:00:27 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Bryan Batten cc: Questions for FreeBSD Subject: Re: Using Extended Partitions In-Reply-To: <199712072341_MC2-2B1A-EE6@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You are confusing 'use' with "boot off" The boot code cannot get to it, but once the system is up and running it can use that slice. of course I have NOT tried to then put a BSD partitionning scheme on an extended slice, only used them to read DOS filesystems or LINUX filesystems that are already there. what is your complete layout? On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Bryan Batten wrote: > OK, I give up. the INSTALL.TXT file on my Walnut Creek CDROM says flatly > that I can mount my DOS extended partitions with FreeBSD 2.2.2. > > Based on that statement, I've reserved a logical partition within the > extended partition on my first drive for FreeBSD (using Linux fdisk). Yet > when I try to get to it during my FreeBSD installation procedure's fdisk > portion, I see nothing except the extended partition itself. > > Am I missing some subtle point in the installation procedure? >