Installation into non-primary partition?

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noloader

Hi All,

I'm out of primary partitions. I have an extended partition with three partitions available. Unfortunately, FreeBSD will not install into them (confirmed during an install attempt) [1]:

FreeBSD must be installed into a primary partition.

Are there any work arounds?

Out of curiosity, why is a primary required for FreeBSD and OpenBSD? XP, Vista, Ubuntu, and Fedora will install into a non-primary.

Jeff

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
 
Install to CF or thumbdrive (/ == root) and to the extended partition (/usr, /var, /tmp , you'll probably run out of space on the latter though; not something I'd recommend. Post more data about your disk(s)? (and backups!)
 
ISTR this is a limitation of FreeBSD's tiny boot loader. Use something else to boot, which should be easy if you're already multi-booting.
 
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