Mounting extended dos partition

[Brian Astill]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > > > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended
> > > > partition ?
> > >
> > > The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4
> > > primary partitions.
> >
> > Typo!  should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three
> > primary partitions"
>
> Not true. In the handbook in section 2.5.2 you will find the
> following

Which refers to FREEBSD, not DOS.
It is a DOS logical partition within a DOS extended partition the 
enquirer is trying to mount.

Your information is irrelevant inaccurate and confusing in this context.


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Regards,
Brian