Date: 27 Sep 1998 00:39:55 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New install / Unrecognized fdisk terms Message-ID: <m3hfxut35g.fsf@chub.local>
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Attempting to install 3.0-19980923-BETA Clearly this is not the right list for these level of questions. Just a little lost as to where to address them. A pointer would be appreciated. Having a little experience with dos and a fair bit more with linux (Redhat) I expected to be able to find my way through an install. After reading the INSTALL.txt TROUBLE.txt and few others. None of them prepared me for the naming conventions used in the fdisk part of the install. I'm starting with this setup: Using linux naming convention for lack of knowing any other. Two HDDs One devoted to win/dos (not shown) one devoted to Redhat Linux, but with a 1000MB space (Linux partitioned and with data on it but expendable) That disk is broken up like so: Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 1 767 3092512+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 1 1 9 36225 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 10 10 467 1846624+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdb7 468 468 476 36256+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb8 477 477 680 822496+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdb9 681 681 767 350752+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdb1 is an extende partition encompassing the whole Disk.The partitions at /dev/hdb 8 9 (total about 1200MB) are available for BSD install. I was not able to tell where they were in the Fdisk printouts that come up during install. BSD fdisk shows a couple of sizeable `unused' spaces. Their are none. Can some of you point me to documentation that will clarify the terminology differences? At this point I wasn't sure what might get overwritten. Was not able to translate any of BSD fdisk into anything I could understand. Once this hurdle is crossed. I'm wondering about the boot-loader. If I just pass on that part. Can I set my linux loader (LILO) to boot BSD? Will the BSD boot-loader overwrite LILOs instructions in the MBR of disk one? -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com Running Redhat Linux-5.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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