From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 15:27:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10917 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10907 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:27:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA32307; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:27:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:27:18 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: zhihuizhang Cc: Bill Hamilton , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition with Partition Magic Message-ID: <19990204172717.A32103@dan.emsphone.com> References: <36BA2036.B4BBB574@finsco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from "zhihuizhang" on Thu Feb 4 18:04:21 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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