From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 7 12:16:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20508 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 12:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from nefertari.udd.htu.se (nefertari.udd.htu.se [193.10.201.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20496 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 12:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se) Received: from b207nt9 (dos69.thnstud.htu.se [193.10.195.79]) by nefertari.udd.htu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA29251 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 21:22:29 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971107211119.00909470@student.udd.htu.se> X-Sender: f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 21:11:19 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Henrik Johansson Subject: Only one DOS partition allowed? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA20503 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I tried installing FreeBSD 2.2.2 the other day. I previously had 4 DOS partitions on my computer, whereof one was a primary partition and the other logical units in an extended partition. In FreeBSDīs fdisk menu the logical partitions in the extended partition apparently are not recognised, so FreeBSD sees the extended partition "as a whole". Therefore I tried recreating the lost partitions by assigning the number 6 for DOS-file format to the newly created partitions. several "X":s turn up on screen to mark these DOS-partition, and the installation later fails with thee message "Max one DOS partition as child of whole". I tried to escape this problem by assigning these partitions as FreeBSD and Linux instead, go on with the installation, and then via OS/2īs fdisk change these FreeBSD and Linux partitions back to DOS format. OS/2īs fdisk was not allowed to modify these partitions! It could not delete them! I would like to have several DOS partitions on my computer, so is there a workaround for this problem?