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From: kbrown@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Kevin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Partitioning for NetBSD
Date: 13 Jan 1995 17:29:03 -0500
Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science
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Message-ID: <3f6urf$dg@pine.cs.scarolina.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pine.cs.scarolina.edu

I'm hoping to set up my hard disk so that I can run DOS, OS/2, and two
versions of NetBSD.  I'm planning on using the OS/2 boot manager to do
this.  In the OS/2 install guide, they suggest a setup like this:

Primary Partition 1	OS/2 Boot Manager
Primary Partition 2	DOS
Extended Partition
	Logical Drive 1	OS/2
	Logical Drive 2	Some other OS
	Logical Drive 3	Some other OS

I'm hoping to put NetBSD on Logical Drives 2 and 3.

My question is: Can NetBSD reside on a logical drive rather than a 
primary partition?  

When I use pfdisk, it doesn't see the logical drives at all, just the
extended partition.  I haven't dealt with NetBSD or OS/2 before, so 
any info would be appreciated.