Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:05:43 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended slice Message-ID: <20020319060543.59C88BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020319053454.3DA21BA07@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <200203190148.g2J1mVp25047@sdf.lonestar.org> <20020318194906.A19053@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020319053454.3DA21BA07@i8k.babbleon.org>
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Sorry, I've gotten the message now . . . (my mail takes too long to send . .
.)
the partitions do work just the install doesn't.
This seems like an especially silly situation to me . . . I always thought
that the filesystem was the limitation here . . .
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:34 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
| 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?
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