From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 7 22:48: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4B5337B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 47686 invoked by uid 100); 8 Feb 2001 06:47:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14978.16659.207713.3575@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:47:47 -0600 (CST) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Support for FreeBSD in an extended slice. X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just had a strange thought, and tested it. It sure looks like you can use an extended slice for FreeBSD. You need to use some other tool (I used the linux fdisk under emulation mode) to create and put a type on the slice, but after that, it works fine. See the last bit of the message for log information. People blunder by -questions fairly regularly asking what they need to do to put FreeBSD in an extended partition. From the looks of things, about 90% of the work to do that has been done. All that's missing is fdisk support for extended partitions to create it, and boot support. Anyone one to comment on how hard those two things would be? Here's what I did just to play with the idea. I used the linux fdisk to create slices on a scratch disk, one in slice 1, an extended slice, and then a second slice in the extension slice, both FreeBSD partitions. Then label, newfs and mount them both as per usual. . -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message