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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:27:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: George Uhl <uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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To: uhl@mamba-e.gsfc.nasa.gov, thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr
Subject: Re: Problems installing 3.3
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Thierry,

Thanks for the quick response!!  Is it OK to put FreeBSD
swap space in the extended partition?  I'm also considering
sharing the swap space between Linux and FreeBSD.  There
is a Linux mini-howto which provides instructions on how
to do this.

Thanks,
George

> 
> Hello,
> 
> FreeBSD cannot use (yet ?) an extended partition for an UFS filesystem
> (it will however see FAT or ext2fs partitions in an extended partition)
> 
> => all of FreeBSD must be installed in a "primary" partition (primary in
> the sense "primary DOS" partition, one of the four entries of the
> partition table which is stored in the MBR)
> 
> 	TfH
> 
> George Uhl wrote:
> > 
> > I'm installing FreeBSD 3.3 fresh on a PC with NT
> > and Linux already installed.  I repartition the
> > disk (preserving the NT & Linux paritions).  The
> > repartioned table is as follows:
> > 
> >  Offset    Size      End Name      Desc Subtype Flg
> >  ------    ----      --- ----      ---- ------- ---
> >       0      63       62   -     unused       0 =
> >      63 4112577  4112639 wd0s1      fat       6 =
> > 4112640  529200  4641839 wd0s2   ext2fs     131 =
> > 4641840  211680  4641839 wd0s3  freebsd     165 C=
> > 4853520 3583440  8436959 wd0s4   ext2fs     131 =
> > 8436960 4158000 12594959     X  freebsd     165 =
> > 
> > The Disklabels table configuration:
> > 
> >  Part   Mount     Size Newfs
> >  ----   -----     ---- -----
> > wd0s1   <none>  2008MB DOS
> > wd0s3a  /        103MB UFS Y
> > X       swap     256MB SWAP
> > X       /var     100MB UFS Y
> > X       /usr    1674MB UFS Y
> > 
> > When I commit the install I get an pop-up window
> > error message:
> > 
> > Unable to make device node for /dev/X in dev!
> > The creation of file systems will be aborted.
> > 
> > The Debug output from <ALT-F2> follows:
> > 
> > DEBUG: installcommit: System state is 'init'
> > DEBUG: diskPartitionWrite: Examining 1 devices
> > DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem
> > DEBUG: Found rootdev at wd0s3a!
> > DEBUG: Found vardev at X!
> > DEBUG: Found usrdev at X!
> > DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions
> > DEBUG: Found swapdev at X!
> > 
> > Is this disk partition scheme salvageable or do I
> > need to repartition the disk drive and reinstall
> > FreeBSD and Linux?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > George
> > 
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