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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:35:39 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        William.Ying@ccgate.Barra.COM
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Primary or Logical Partition
Message-ID:  <199606190135.SAA11717@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <9605188351.AA835112464@ccgate.barra.com> from "William.Ying@ccgate.Barra.COM" at Jun 18, 96 08:34:08 am

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>      Can FreeBSD be installed on a Extended Logical Partition of a hard 
>      drive?  It seems like when I use FreeBSD fdisk to create a partition, 
>      it automatically creates a primary partition.  Is there a way to make 
>      it be a logical partition?  Thank you very much!

DOS can not boot an OS from an extended partition.

There are some boot managers that can do this.  I believe that the
one that comes with FreeBSD isn't one of them.

If you have the OS/2 boot manager, you may be able to make this boot.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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