From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 12:42: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB8337B699 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01576; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:09:19 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39E4BADE.977FF6@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:09:18 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Johnson , eugene@streetcar.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation question - partitioning References: <39E4AD52.8266DA9F@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD can't use DOS extended partitions for its own stuff. It has its > own "extended" slice/partition scheme. Please see the FreeBSD Handbook > for more information. It is possible (Iīm actually doing this), but as fdisk donīt support this process, you have to calculate the correct CHS-values by hand and force fdisk to use them. The solution below presented by my predecessor is much easier. > So you will need a primary partition to install FreeBSD to, but you will > still be able to access your extended partitions. Looking at your > current setup, I would recommend a good non-destructive repartitioner > like Partition Magic or System Commander. I'm not experienced with NTFS, > but my guess is that FreeBSD will only be able to access it as > read-only. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message