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Subject: install.hlp and FAQ about DOS primary partition
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>Number:         8333
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       install.hlp and FAQ about DOS primary partition
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 15 04:10:00 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Thu Oct 15 04:22:36 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Thu Oct 15 04:22:47 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Sue Blake
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

In install.hlp, and under MS DOS users questions in the FAQ, it says:

   It is probably better to create another uncompressed MS-DOS primary partition and use this
   for communications between MS-DOS and FreeBSD.

It should say extended partition, not primary.

Justification:

If there are two or more primary DOS partitions, DOS can only see the
one that it booted off. There is no way to access any other primary DOS
partition from DOS, so it couldn't be used for communication as
suggested above. DOS will never be aware of more than one primary,
and DOS will always call that Drive C no matter where it is.

It is possible to create another extended partition (containing one or
more logical drives) on another physical disk. For example, create a
small extended DOS partition (not primary) on the second disk, install
FreeBSD on the remainder, and both operating systems can see and use
that extended partition for sharing data.



	

>How-To-Repeat:

Reclaim brain-space formerly allocated to microsoft workarounds.
Then try to remember.

	

>Fix:

Change "primary" to "extended" in that sentence in both docs.


	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 15 04:22:36 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Hmmm, OK, I think I've got the wording right now. 
>Unformatted:
