From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 1:32:16 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 1768C37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:32:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DED43E88 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA32722; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:32:12 -0700 Message-ID: <3DAD240C.4040206@owt.com> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:32:12 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmd17@columbia.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd into an extended partition References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 John Daniels wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > >> From: Kent Stewart >> It didn't matter. My mailer mangled it anyway. The sysinstall fdisk >> will do what you need to do. You delete the extended partition and >> then use what is left as a FreeBSD slice. >> > OK, but the sysinstall fdisk has a "Change Type" option that seemed to > work. > When I tried it, it changed the EXTENDED partition/slice to FreeBSD. > > Do I need to actually Delete the EXTENDED partition and then recreate > it as a FreeBSD slice? (is that safer, or otherwise recommended) > It seems that "Change Type" does this in one step. > > BTW, I have nothing on the EXTENDED partition. It is only there to hold > FreeBSD. If you can change it to a FreeBSD primary, you should be ok. Most people have a logical in their extended and you probably would have had to delete it first. I have never converted an extended into a FreeBSD primary. I just added my FreeBSD slice and went on with the install. In one case, I had a W2K partition after the fbsd and in one case I had two in front of it. My first primary was always FAT32 so that I could move FreeBSD data between OSes. The other Windows partitions were all NTFS. In both cases there were 3 partitions on the drives where FreeBSD was installed. This was during the transition from 3.x to 4.1 and FreeBSD's boot had to be under 8.4GB (cyl 1024 with LBA). Since then, I haven't had to worry about sizes. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message