From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 18:38:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA15774 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15769 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA11717; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:35:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606190135.SAA11717@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Primary or Logical Partition To: William.Ying@ccgate.Barra.COM Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:35:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9605188351.AA835112464@ccgate.barra.com> from "William.Ying@ccgate.Barra.COM" at Jun 18, 96 08:34:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.