From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 26 07:27:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01726 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 07:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA01721 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 07:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20381; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:26:25 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970726152625.07663@pavilion.net> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:26:25 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Hans van Reenen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition option for freebsd References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Hans van Reenen on Sat, Jul 26, 1997 at 03:44:20PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Jul 26, 1997 at 03:44:20PM +0200, Hans van Reenen wrote: > > Partition Status Type System > > c:1 A primary dos fat16 > 2 extended dos fat16 > [...] > OFFSET SIZE END NAME PTYPE DESC SUBTYPE > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 56385 56447 wd0s1 2 fat 4 > 56448 4943232 4999679 wd0s2 4 extended 5 > 4999680 10080 5009759 - 6 unused 0 [...] > Or is it not possible to install FreeBSD in any logical partition ? That's true. FreeBSD needs it's own real partition of PTYPE 'freebsd'. You could reshuffle your disk around by using something like partition magic to recover the 'empty' space in your extended partition and then make the extended partition smaller, leaving space at the end of the disk for a freebsd partition. Joe -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]