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I want to try freeBSD, but my question is can i install FreeBSD in a logical partition what in linux look like hda5, 6, etc or do i have to install it only on primary partition.
I want to dual boot with windows and have only 1 primary partitions and lots of logical ones.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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I know that OpenBSD at least must be installed on a primary partition; I would be shocked if FreeBSD is different. Have you tried reading the FreeBSD handbook that is linked in the "read this first" post at the top of the forum?
FreeBSD cannot, AFAIK, be installed in a primary partition; however, it can read them. You'd just reference it by the next slice number-- /dev/ad0s5 would be the first logical slice (a DOS partition) on an IDE drive.
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