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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Coexisting on the PC
Date: 23 Mar 1994 23:12:47 +0100
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In article <XJAM.94Mar22140337@palm.cs.berkeley.edu>,
The Crossjammer <xjam@palm.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>That's what extended partitions are for. Make one of your four hardwired
>partitions an extended one and you can sub-partition it into multiple
>partitions. I have my Linux /usr and /home on sub-partitions of an extended

Thanks for the  clarification. I have  many Linux friends but almost no-one
use this scheme here.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT                          Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
A FreeBSD & PERL addict...                PGP 2.3a public key on key-servers 
Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !