From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 14:04:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31C116A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:04:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com (frontend1.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD80C43D2F for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:04:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) X-Sasl-enc: K1paIOHSY108MKZCwtXu7A 1093183442 Received: from modem-2772.llama.dialup.pol.co.uk (modem-2772.llama.dialup.pol.co.uk [217.135.186.212]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74D7C14BFE for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:04:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. W." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:04:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <6.1.2.0.0.20040822133505.02af5430@mail.totalise.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20040822133505.02af5430@mail.totalise.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408221504.06485.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 on large disk shared with Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:04:06 -0000 On Sunday 22 August 2004 13:49, John Michaels wrote: > I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with > FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then > 'follow along' the book. > > I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which > already has Windows Me (and Slackware). Because of Windows not always > behaving itself, I have split the 60Gb into (10Gb and 20Gb) for > windows and 5Gb for slackware. These are primary partitions. An > extended partition holds swap and /home logical partitions. Half of > the remaining space of 10Gb was to be allocated to FreeBSD. > > I started installation, went into the 'fdisk' to create a 'slice' of > 5000M for FreeBSD. This was done. The next screen asked about > bootmanagers, I asked for it and then the next screen gave the > following message: > > Disk slicing warning > Max one 'fat' allowed as child of whole > > When I hit enter, no other option available, the installation returns > me to the disk partitioning screen. This cycle repeats. The only way > out is by cancelling the installation. > > I have more than one fat partition to reduce chances of Windows > crashing and spending hours in scandisk checking the various disks. > Surely with the large disks now available, my problem is quite > common? Am I right in assuming that FreeBSD does not allow more than > one 'FAT' partition on any disk? Why? I don't think there is any such restriction But I don't understand what you have done here. You can have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primaries and one extended. If you have windows on two primary partitions and slackware on a primary and extended partition then you have no partition left to put FreeBSD on.