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From: Lars Hofhansl <lars_hofhansl@public.uni-hamburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: again : extended partitions
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:29:05 +0100
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I received contradictory information about extended
partitions. Some say "yes" other say "no".

So, as final statement : 

As of 2.1R, does FreeBSD support extended partitions.
That is, can it access already existsing DOS extended partition,
and can it be installed itself on a extended partition
(to have more than four partition on a single HD) ?!

TIA, 

	Lars

ps. I didn't find anything on that in the FAQ or the 
BSD Handbook...