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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:53:49 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com>
Subject:   Re: New Computer System
Message-ID:  <20060224115349.GB1411@flame.pc>
In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0602232050y4d5828cldb0fdb370f6cc842@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060222.164330.8420.330983@webmail39.nyc.untd.com> <d7195cff0602232050y4d5828cldb0fdb370f6cc842@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2006-02-23 22:50, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2/22/06, gs_stoller@juno.com <gs_stoller@juno.com> wrote:
>> I bought a new system (it was on sale), it has 180 Gigabytes
>> of hard drive.  Naturally I want to slice it up, so where can
>> I find the documentation on the slice/partition process and
>> table.  As I recall, I can make 4 hard slices/partitions and
>> then I can further break-down 1 (or more of them) to have
>> logical slices/partitions.  Where can I find documentation on
>> the logical slices/partitions and how to use them?  Can I boot
>> into a ( FreeBSD ) logical slice, and if so, how do I do it?
>> (For the 4 hard slices, one uses function keys F1 thru F4 .)
>> Has someone already setup the capability of booting into
>> logical slices, and if so, where can I get it and its
>> documentation?
>
> From a 40-50 minute excursion into qemu, FreeBSD does not enjoy
> linux logical partitions (slices), and I could not get it to
> install into one.

Sure it does.  They just have slice numbers >= 5.

You can't boot from a logical slice though.

> Jerry McAllister's advice remains sound.

True :)




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