From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 12:58:28 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 12:58:25 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22FD037B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:58:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.8.84.60] (helo=Arley) by oracle.clara.net with smtp (Exim 3.11 #5) id 14DC22-0006be-00; Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:58:15 +0000 From: john gennard Reply-To: joney@clara.co.uk Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:47:13 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: questions@freebsd.org To: Mike Meyer References: <14925.17278.686510.347644@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <14925.17278.686510.347644@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: First install of 4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010120471300.00318@Arley> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 30 December 2000 2:07 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > john gennard 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