From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 23:42: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAE137B400; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:05:49 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 59C88BA05; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:05:43 -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 01:05:43 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200203190148.g2J1mVp25047@sdf.lonestar.org> <20020318194906.A19053@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020319053454.3DA21BA07@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020319053454.3DA21BA07@i8k.babbleon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020319060543.59C88BA05@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 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? -- 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