Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:22:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: H.vanReenen@UCI.KUN.NL (Hans van Reenen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition option for freebsd Message-ID: <199707261422.QAA29227@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95.970726152227.62698A-100000@baserv.uci.kun.nl> from Hans van Reenen at "Jul 26, 97 03:44:20 pm"
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> > Hello, > > Yet, I am preparing to install FreeBSD on my computer. > > The harddisk (ide) is partioned under DOS als follows; > > Partition Status Type System > > c:1 A primary dos fat16 > 2 extended dos fat16 > > So, partition #2 is an extented partion divided in 5 logical partitions. > > D: (win95) > E: (nt4.0) > F: (applications) > G: (free) > H: (data) > > My question is: How can I choose (seen by DOS) logical partion G: to > install there FREEBSD ? You can't. FreeBSD needs only supports primary partitions for its file systems. You *can* mount logical partitions from FreeBSD though, for example to read and write to msdos `filesystems'. > > The FDISK partition editor on the FreeBSD bootflop shows me the following > scheme: > > OFFSET SIZE END NAME PTYPE DESC SUBTYPE > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 56385 56447 wd0s1 2 fat 4 > 56448 4943232 4999679 wd0s2 4 extended 5 > 4999680 10080 5009759 - 6 unused 0 > > I'am a novice user so it confused me a lot. In the above scheme I have > to decide where I install FreeBSD. Where can I find "dos" partition "G:" ? > > Or is it not possible to install FreeBSD in any logical partition ? Yes, I mean no :-) (see above) > > Thanks in advance. > > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > -------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------- > Hans van Reenen > medewerker van het uci, sectie cs-ops > tel : 024-3617949 > email: h.vanreenen@uci.kun.nl > www : http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~hvreenen > ------------------------Oooo.---------- > .oooO ( ) > ( ) ( ) > \ ) (_/ > - > >
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