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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing from my D: drive?
Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:13:48 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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To: Ean Kingston <ean@gold.interlog.com>
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970320102133.5334A-100000@gold.interlog.com>,
Ean Kingston <ean@gold.interlog.com> writes:
> 1) (from the compatibility help files) FreeBSD (2.1 anyway) doesn't
> support DOS EXTENDED PARTITIONS. If people have 2 dos partitions on the
> same physical drive the second one is almost always an extended partitions
> because dos could not handle more then 1 primary partition untill dos 3.3.
> After that microsoft was just too lazy to fix the code in fdisk to create
> multiple dos partitions. So unless you did something really odd when you
> setup dos you can't install from your D: because FreeBSD can't recognize
> this. I am not sure if the nice folks who bring us FreeBSD have added
> support for extended partitions since version 2.1.
Extended partitions are supported - I forget when it was added. To mount
the first logical drive in the extended partition on IDE disk 0, use wd0s5.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !