From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 11:30:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5071D37B40E for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (lille-1-a7-62-147-3-225.dial.proxad.net [62.147.3.225]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id A10FC5FF60; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:30:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:23:01 +0200 From: messmate To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions-en Subject: Re: partitioning question Message-Id: <20020612202301.51de1c23.messmate@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <4055880051.20020612000928@dds.nl> References: <4055880051.20020612000928@dds.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Alex, install lilo from Debian or Redhat so you can boot every OS ! See FreeBSD handbook for booting FreeBSD with Lilo. On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:09:28 +0200 Alex wrote: | | Hello/Beste Brian, | | Thursday, June 06, 2002, 9:57:43 PM, you wrote: | | HB> Hello- | HB> I am confused about partitioning my hard drive. I have one disk with the | HB> following partitions. | | HB> Primary 1 - Windows 2000 Pro - NTFS : 5G | HB> Primary 2 - FreeBSD - UFS : 5G | HB> Primary 3 - Minix - MinixFS : 200M | | HB> Exented: | HB> Logical 5 - Grub menu.list - EXT2FS 8M | HB> Logical 6 - Swap - Linux Swap : 192M | HB> Logical 7 - Debian - EXT2FS : 5G | HB> Logical 8 - Redhat - EXT2FS : 5G | HB> Logical 9 - BeOS - BFS : 4G | HB> Logical 10 - Free Space - Fat32 : 3.5G | | | HB> Is this the proper way to partitions this disk? | | Yes, i got 4 primary partitions. | | HB> I was told that only one primary partition should exist on a disk. | HB> I am confused with debian because it thinks it exists on | HB> /dev/hda11. I can't get it to boot with grub. Should I create a | HB> couple of extended partitions and put freebsd and minix in those | HB> partitions? | | I don't know what grub is. Are you able to boot from you logical | partitions? (to debian?; i'm not used to debian) | | | HB> thanks, | HB> brian | | HB> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | HB> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | | | | -- | Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, | Alex | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message