From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 23:57:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6688337B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f9.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E4143E9E for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:57:43 -0700 Received: from 66.89.179.250 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 06:57:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.89.179.250] Reply-To: jmd17@columbia.edu From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using an extended partition for freebsd Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:57:43 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2002 06:57:43.0852 (UTC) FILETIME=[5394CEC0:01C274E1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone: I am installing 4.7-REL on a PC with one PRIMARY and one EXTENDED partition. The PRIMARY partition is FAT and I have W98 there. I want to use the EXTENED partition (the WHOLE partition - there is currently nothing there) for FreeBSD but I read that FreeBSD needs to be installed into a PRIMARY partition. SYSINSTALL's FDISK program has an option ("Change Type") that lets me change the EXTENDED partition to FreeBSD, but I don't know if it is changing the partition to PRIMARY or just making a cosmetic Label change. And if it is making the change, will the BIOS recognize it (will anything break) Will SYSINSTALL's FDISK program do what I need it to do? If not, what tool can I use to change the EXTENDED partition to a PRIMARY partition? FYI, SYSINSTALL's FDISK screen is: Disk Name: ad0 Disk geometry: 4865 cyls/ 255 heads / 63 sectors = 78156225 (38162MB) Offset Size End Name PType Desc. Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 12594897 12594959 ad0s1 2 fat 11 12594960 65561265 78156224 ad0s2 4 extended 15 78156225 9135 78165359 - 6 unused 0 Thanks in advance, John (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband.  Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message