From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 20:27:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (arc1-76.netwalk.net [206.175.61.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B9714C18 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA41693; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:27:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Mark Ovens Cc: Nightshifter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stuck lost and a newbie to freebsd! In-Reply-To: <19990427214440.B447@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :AFAIK, you can't have a primary partition *after* an extended one, :which is what you are implying "the partition I created is at the :end with 400megs" is. Which means you have two 400MB logical drives :in an extended partition. : :If this is the case then you won't be able to install FreeBSD, it :must be in a primary partition (I take it you're not planning on :overwriting Windows, even though it is a nice thought :-) ). : Would it be possible to delete the partitions you created (restore the old layout) and then just shrink your one large partition with FIPS? That scheme should leave you with 2 primary partitions and allow FreeBSD to install. This is how I always did it back in the "Old Days" ** If you aren't sure what you're doing with your disks/layouts/etc, ** it wouldn't hurt to find someone who may have a deeper ** understanding on the subject to walk you through it, or even do it ** for you. You really don't want to fudge this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message