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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 11 Apr 1994 05:36:55 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2oanln$5hf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nmeb4$ro@menudo.uh.edu> <JKH.94Apr3184442@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2nn1lq$1pm@lovecraft.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <2nn1lq$1pm@lovecraft.convex.com>, Chris Smith <csmith@convex.com> wrote: > From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) > Date: 03 Apr 1994 17:44:42 GMT > > That aside, and speaking more generally, many of the instructions > WON'T GET ANY BETTER IF PEOPLE DON'T HELP US TO IMPROVE THEM! > >Good point. > >The install-notes do not say that *BSD must be installed on a PRIMARY >partition. It just says "make the partition, know its position and >size, set it to A5, ...". I use logical partitions for everything. Umm, all the documentation I've read and the fdisk that I'm using refers to what you are calling 'logical partitions' as logical drives. Using that assumption the statement is still valid that *BSD can be installed on any partition, extended or primrary. >If you want specific suggestions, in the paragraph about running DOS >fdisk to create a new partition, add the word "primary" and the >sentence "xBSD cannot be installed in a logical partition." Primary isn't necessary, but *BSD cannot be installed on a logical drive. Thanks for the feedback! Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.