On Friday 13 July 2007, h p wrote: > Hi. > > I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows > XP and Gentoo Linux). > > I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows > four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is correctly > recognized as a DOS extended partition, but the logical partitions > inside it are not displayed - so I can't select the slice I have > set aside for FreeBSD. > > Is this possible? I don't find that limitation in the handbook, and > it seems utterly anachronistic to me. What can I do to get around > this? > > Thanks, > > Helge >
Logical partitions are a horrible hack that should die a horrible death. FreeBSD doesn't support installing/booting from them. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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