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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 12 Apr 1994 21:08:31 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2of2kf$nsp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CMzw69.92K@tower.nullnet.fi> <2nn1lq$1pm@lovecraft.convex.com> <2oanln$5hf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2obrtf$i55@lovecraft.convex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <2obrtf$i55@lovecraft.convex.com>, Chris Smith <csmith@convex.com> wrote: > >The install-notes do not say that *BSD must be installed on a PRIMARY > >partition. [ discussion of 'logical partitions' vs 'logical drives'. ] > Using that assumption the statement is still valid that *BSD can > be installed on any partition, extended or primrary. > >An extended partition is a primary partition of type 5, it is the union >of all the logical partitions. Logical partitions are a linked list >inside the extended partition. > >In principle, it's exactly like the type A5 BSD partition that has >internal subpartitions, only these subpartitions are visible to DOS >as (logical) drive letters. (The ones that have DOS filesystems on them.) Except that using DOS's fdisk you can only make one primary partition, so you need to create an 'extended partition' which will be completely over-written by FreeBSD. >But you can't put BSD, or anything else, on an extended partition -- >it heads the linked list, it's not a usable partition. If you desire to completely over-write the entire partition it is valid to put BSD on an extended partition. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.