From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 01:57:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F159216A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:57:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail02.up.edu.ph (ns02.up.edu.ph [202.92.128.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7276943D2F for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rebs@math.upd.edu.ph) Received: (qmail 8673 invoked by uid 504); 5 Mar 2004 10:49:27 -0000 Received: from rebs@math.upd.edu.ph by web2 by uid 501 with qmail-scanner (update: v4333 03 Mar 2004 - Processed in 0.914266 secs); 05 Mar 2004 10:49:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO b01.mail.up.edu.ph) (10.16.3.1) by 10.16.3.144 with SMTP; 5 Mar 2004 10:49:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 3147 invoked by uid 504); 5 Mar 2004 09:59:17 -0000 Received: from rebs@math.upd.edu.ph by b01 by uid 501 with qmail-scanner (update: v4333 03 Mar 2004, Processed in 2.619507 secs); 05 Mar 2004 09:59:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.math.upd.edu.ph) ([10.32.128.24]) (envelope-sender ) by 10.16.3.1 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Mar 2004 09:59:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 8427 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2004 09:55:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO krieg) (192.168.1.238) by 0 with SMTP; 5 Mar 2004 09:55:50 -0000 Message-ID: <001a01c40298$23a3abf0$ee01a8c0@krieg> From: "Eric Draven" To: Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:56:31 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: installing freebsd prob... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:57:12 -0000 hi list, i'm trying to install freebsd 5.2 on my pc at home. the hard disk dual = boots with mandrake 9.1 and win xp. i wanted to install on the = partitions used by linux, however, in the partitioning portion of the = installation, the installer only read the fat partitions and not the = linux (ext3) partitions. i wonder why the installer can't view the linux = partitions; is there a solution to this? (without using partitionmagic, = etc...) btw, i'm installing from cd. TIA -------------------- rebX