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PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:23 am    Post subject: Gentoo/FreeBSD on Linux Extended? Reply with quote

Is it possible to install Gentoo/FreeBSD (or any BSD for that matter) within a logical partition of a Linux extended partition?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I believe I read somewhere recently that all the BSD derivatives need their slices as primary.
Never tried *BSD myself though, so accord this advice the appropriate weight ... :wink:
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, that's correct. That's because an extended partition is basically a Microsoft kludge, so it has M$-DOS compatible information in it that's incompatible with *BSD (and just about any non-M$/IBM OS I've ever heard of, bar Linux).
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