From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 10:47:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.236.189.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE95414E77 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com) Received: from d1o1.telia.com (root@d1o1.telia.com [195.67.240.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27408 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:46:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from doorway.home.lan (t2o1p1.telia.com [195.67.240.61]) by d1o1.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA16338 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:46:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from stockholm.mail.telia.com (putte.home.lan [192.168.255.2]) by doorway.home.lan (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA22389 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:40:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com) Message-ID: <36E2C800.72EEFFEC@stockholm.mail.telia.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:40:05 +0100 From: Mark Hannon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use extended partition for FreeBSD? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I solved this in another way! I downloaded a dos based shareware partition editor, removed wd0s6, shrunk the extended partition and thus made room to create a new primary partition in place of wd0s6. Once that was done I was up and away and /stand/sysinstall worked fine /mark > > > Mark Hannon wrote: > > > > Hi, > > But my problem is that it is wd0s6, ie a 'logical' drive within the DOS > > extended partition that I have available and logical drives do not appear > > in fdisk! When I fire up /stand/sysinstall I see this: > > > > Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor > > > > DISK Geometry: 523 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8401995 sectors > > > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > > > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > > 63 2056257 2056319 wd0s1 2 fat 11 > > 2056320 5510295 7566614 wd0s2 4 extended 5 > > 7566615 835380 8401994 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C > > 8401995 2835 8404829 - 6 unused 0 > > > > It is not possible to look inside the extended partition! > > > > Regards/Mark > > > > "Mark S. Reichman" wrote: > > > > > I just did this... About 2 weeks ago actually. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message