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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Primary or Logical Partition
To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:48:25 -0700 (MST)
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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
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