Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:05:04 +1030 From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au> To: "John Duffy" <jbduffy@cwcom.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation Problem Message-ID: <00120415111402.01470@PhD_1.testname.com.au> In-Reply-To: <000201c05d53$e3c4fb20$a4c92cc3@desktop> References: <000201c05d53$e3c4fb20$a4c92cc3@desktop>
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2000, John Duffy wrote: > The disk is partitioned as so: > > P1 4GB FreeBSD > P2 3GB NTFS (Windows 2000) > P3 1GB FAT > P4 Extended Partition > L5 3GB Linux ext2 > L6 1GB Linux ext2 > L7 3GB Linux ext2 > L8 1GB Linux ext2 > L9 441M Linux Swap There IS a fix. Make a small DOS (Fat16) partition at the beginning of the drive, and use Boot Manager to boot to your required system from there. As you are already on the limit of 4 partitions, to adopt this fix you would have to delete one of the existing ones - perhaps you could manage without P3? That 4-partition (ONE of which can be extended) limitation is a PAIN. It is the reason I use 2 8M drives rather than 1 16M drive. -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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