From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 12:58:35 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 12:58:32 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 2B9A737B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.8.84.60] (helo=Arley) by oracle.clara.net with smtp (Exim 3.11 #5) id 14DC2I-0006be-00; Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:58:30 +0000 From: john gennard Reply-To: joney@clara.co.uk Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:53:55 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Janko van Roosmalen References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: First install of 4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010120535501.00318@Arley> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 29 December 2000 10:53 pm, Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, john gennard wrote: > > 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. > > In the partition table is only space for four entries. You have > used them all on your disk. 3 entries for the primary partitions > and 1 entry for the extended partition. > > In order to install FreeBSD you will need to free one of these > entries by deleting a partition. > > > FreeBSD shows the primary partitions accurately - numbering them > > ad0s1 to ad0s3 and describing them correctly as ext2fs. No > > contents of the extended partition are identified - there is > > merely a single partition of 5483Mb named ad0s4 described as > > 'unknown', PType '1' and Sub Type '133' (the primaries are > > '131'). Additionally, a small amount (7Mb) of free space is > > identified which I don't understand since as it is almost > > exclusively beyond the last sector of the drive (i.e. there are a > > total of 20000925 sectors (1245 X 255 x 63) and the 7 Mb free is > > supposedly 20000925 to 20015855 a total of 14931 sectors). > > Some possibilities: > > - merge two primary ext2fs partitions to one bigger one > > - move contents of one primary ext2fs partition to an existing or > additionally created logical partition to in the extended partition > > - buy a second hard disk and install on there. > > > I run Linux, mainly Debian 2.2, and although having little > > experience of computers now can cope with drive partitioning and > > installations within that genre reasonably comfortably. Here, I'm > > 'out of my depth'. Can anyone help me out please. The literature > > contained on the CD I have doesn't cover the use of the > > 'Partition Editor' and a visit to 'www.freebsd.org' hasn't aided > > me. > > Thank you for your reply. From your response and that of Mike Meyer, I now understand the position. At present it is not convenient for me to re-configure this hard drive and although I have spare IDE channels, there's no space in the box for an additional drive. I'll give FreeBSD a try as soon as I can. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message