Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:27:18 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> Cc: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition with Partition Magic Message-ID: <19990204172717.A32103@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990204175709.13163B-100000@bingsun1>; from "zhihuizhang" on Thu Feb 4 18:04:21 GMT 1999 References: <36BA2036.B4BBB574@finsco.com> <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990204175709.13163B-100000@bingsun1>
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In the last episode (Feb 04), zhihuizhang said: > The nine partitions are (in order) FAT, Extended, Linux Ext2, Linux > Ext2, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext2, Linux Swap, NTFS (I guess this is for > NT), and FAT. The last one is free to use, I use PartitionMagic to > format it and set it to be FAT. > > It seems to me that partition and extended partion are different. If I run > fdisk, there are only two items: > > C: 1 PRI-DOS 31M > 2 EXT-DOS 6119M > > So, linux and NT must be put into the EXT-DOS part. > > If this is bad arragement, can you tell me how to do this from > scratch? I still want to put Linux and NT on that machine as well. If you can, remove that spare FAT partition, and rearrange the other partitions so that the freespace is _not_ inside any extended-partition containers (Partition Magic should let you do this). That should let FreeBSD see and install into it. FreeBSD wants to install into unpartitioned freespace, and must live in a primary partition. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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