From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 21:59:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3048937B405; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:59:10 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 3DA21BA07; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:34:54 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended slice Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:34:54 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200203190148.g2J1mVp25047@sdf.lonestar.org> <20020319024407.751EFBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <20020318194906.A19053@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020318194906.A19053@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020319053454.3DA21BA07@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 18 March 2002 10:49 pm, David O'Brien wrote: | On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:44:07PM -0500, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote: | > What good will it do you if do boot it? FreeBSD doesn't support UFS in | > extended partitions anyway. | | Yes it does. Why do you say it doesn't? Because that's what I've always been told. Because when I try to install it in a secondary partition refuses to install there. Because all my friends who have been using FreeBSD for years say so. Because the FreeBSD handbook says, in so many words: FreeBSD must be installed in to a primary partition. FreeBSD can keep all its data, including any files that you create, on this one partition. However, if you have multiple disks then you can create a FreeBSD partition on all, or some, of them. When you install FreeBSD you must have one partition available. This might be a blank partition that you have prepared, or it might be an existing partition that contains data that you no longer care about. If you are already using all the partitions on all your disks then you will have to free one of them for FreeBSD to use, using the tools provided by the other operating systems you use (e.g., fdisk on DOS or Windows). What makes *you* think otherwise? -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message