Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:56:21 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Eric Draven <rebs@math.upd.edu.ph>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd prob... Message-ID: <4048A325.7070307@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <001a01c40298$23a3abf0$ee01a8c0@krieg> References: <001a01c40298$23a3abf0$ee01a8c0@krieg>
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Eric Draven wrote: >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 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Ask this on questions mailing list.... first of all 5.2 has some isses, thats why 5.2.1 was released 2nd. unless you uses freebsd as a desktop os (X, spiffy apps, etc) or dont have a net connection you can get by by only downloading the mini iso disk (250MB) this disk has FreeBSD, Ports src tree, Man pages, and all of the FreeBSD source code on, and perl 5.6. from there you can download from the ports tree the software you need. Ok about your question what was it oh ext3...don't know if FreeBSD supports ext3 (at boot time), isnt ext3 journaling file system?, this is most liky your problem. FreeBSD et al. have there own file system called Fast File System (FFS, aka Unix File System UFS) and FreeBSD 5.x uses UFS 2. if you use anything other then UFS your probly asking for trubble. just did a quick search(1) and it says that ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2 so you should be looking for info on Ext2 and FreeBSD, witch another quick search brings this up: The Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD.html MOUNT_EXT2FS(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ext2fs&sektion=8 (1) http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=f2624885971d2646b28e56bf1256761c&goto=lastpost&threadid=11362
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