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FreeBSD 5.1 beta2 Now Available

Posted by timothy on from the free-like-the-wind dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering Team's Scott Long has uploaded the 5.1 i386 Beta2 release of FreeBSD. He will be uploading the alpha release, work is under way to get a beta2 for sparc64 and pc98. Downloads for i386 are available here."

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  1. Re:Extended partitions by Arandir · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's no way that I know of. Most operating systems cannot boot from anything but a primary partition, with Linux being the only exception that I know of. Slices are the BSD version of logical partitions, and from what I understand, they predate Microsoft's extended/logical partition scheme. BSD can access DOS logical partitions just fine, but it can't boot from them.

    There is a workaround though. Convert that logical partition to a primary partition. This will probably involve some shuffling around, so get a good repartitioner. Once you have a free primary partition, install away.

    Or do what I do, and use a separate harddrive. At one time this was prohibitive, but drives are so cheap now that it's the easy and simple solution.

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