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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD woes. Help needed here! ;(
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 14:22:02 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Neil Brendan Clark <nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>

Neil Brendan Clark wrote:
> 
> In article <31b1c4d4.2162750@news.panix.com>, SeVeN <push@panix.com> wrote:
> >I have been successful in mount the DOS primary partition and the CD-ROM drive.
> >However I cannot figure out how to mount the logical partitions inside the DOS
> >extended partitions.
> 
> AFAIK this is not possible at the moment with FreeBSD.

It is, they're just mapped above the 4 MBR entries, e.g. `D' would be
/dev/sd0s5 and `E' would be /dev/sd0s6 on a SCSI system with an extended
partition on it.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project