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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Install in a logical drive?
Date: 7 Dec 1993 01:01:25 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <2e046n$bd3@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> peckham@drei.enet.dec.com (Alan D. Peckham) writes:
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>I want to install FreeBSD into a DOS logical drive, which could be
>booted through the OS/2 Boot Manager, but I see that there is no
>code in the appropriate places to recognize extended partitions/
>logical drives. Is anybody considering this work? Or has it been
>tossed as too much effort? I don't have any more primary partitions
>on my main disk...


Er, ouch...

Some work is currently underway (not by me) to support mounting of PCFS
file systems on DOS extended partitions.

There is currently no way to install in a DOS logical partition; the
main tools to do this would be a pfdisk that knows about them (to run
under DOS to create a BSD partition) or a BSD fdisk, assuming all the
work with the BSD code is done.

Secondary considerations, like the ability of the default BSD MBR (when it
is the first thing on the disk) to boot extended partitions, and the
"proper" checksum for the boot track to let OS/2's boot manager recognize
it as a bootable partition still need to be addressed.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.