Subject: Re: NetBSD and DOS Extended logical partitions
To: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/29/2000 09:43:53
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:55:37PM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> I'm a Linux user/developer interested in xBSD. I'm wondering
> if NetBSD supports DOS Extended partitions, as it is one
> of the major things that is stopping me from installing
> Open/FreeBSD, as neither of these support extended/logical
> partitions.

Unfortunately, they're not recognized at the moment. There's a patch
to do it, and I will modify fdisk and the installer to handle them
for the next release, but I suppose that doesn't help you much..

- Frank