Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:48:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Primary or Logical Partition Message-ID: <199606191748.KAA13293@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199606191221.IAA24510@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at Jun 19, 96 08:21:25 am
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> Nope, Terry... The OS/2 boot manager didn't help when I tried to > do it here. Dos has to be primary (it's stupid), FreeBSD 2.1.0 has to be > primary (I wish id didn't -- anyone know if the snaps require it?). > > OS/2 will work fine from a "logical" partiton. You have 3 primaries, at least, and one more primary, or it is used for a DOS extended partition. DOS fdsik limits you to creating two "primary" paritions for DOS: a DOS primary, and a DOS extended. The BSD partition can be in it's own primary without trouble. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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