From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 11 9:17:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.edata.co.za (mail.edata.co.za [196.35.169.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73B737B503; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from THORNROSE ([196.37.187.142]) by mail.edata.co.za (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA05369; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:45:26 +0200 Reply-To: From: "Eugene van Zyl" To: Cc: Subject: FreeBSD installation question - partitioning Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:16:23 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've got a hard drive with 2 primary partitions (for booting OS's), and = one big extended partition (type 15 I think) with a logical partition = for sharinf data between OS's. Being familiar with Linux, I thought I'd do the normal /boot partition = below cylinder(?) 1024 and then the /,/var and /usr partitions in the = extented partition, for FreeBSD. e.g. - NTFS: C: - FreeBSD: /boot - Extended Partition -- FreeBSD / -- FreeBSD Swap -- FreeBSD /var -- FreeBSD /usr -- NTFS D: Only problem being that the FreeBSD fdisk and labeling program doesn't = see the logical partitions inside the extended partition! I've already = got a lot of data on the D: partition, so losing the extended partition = is not really an appetising solution. Is the above config possible with FreeBSD or am I stuck? Thanks, Eugene van Zyl eugene@streetcar.com Streetcar Web Commerce (Pty) Ltd Tel : +27 11 880 0433 Fax : +27 11 880 0590 Cell: +27 83 628 8282 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message