Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:47:13 +0000 From: john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First install of 4.2 Message-ID: <01010120471300.00318@Arley> In-Reply-To: <14925.17278.686510.347644@guru.mired.org> References: <14925.17278.686510.347644@guru.mired.org>
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On Saturday 30 December 2000 2:07 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk> types: > > I have a problem with the FDisk Partition Editor's interpretation > > of a 10.2 Gig Eide Hard Drive on a Desktop PC. There are 9 > > partitions (3 primary and 1 extended which has 5 logicals) and 1 > > Gig of free space (to be used for a trial of FreeBSD4.2) > > according to Linux's fdisk and cfdisk. > > You can't install FBSD on a disk with that configuration. It > doesn't run from an extended partition. You need to move one of the > primaries into the extended partition, and let FreeBSD use the > primary partition. > > Once you've got it installed, you can mount and use extended > partitions with external file system types (ext2fs, msdos and maybe > others). > Mike, Thank you for taking the time to reply and explain the position. I find it a little disappointing that I cannot install where I wish - in due course I may change the configuration and then try FreeBSD. > > FreeBSD shows the primary partitions accurately - > > [Snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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