From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 16:37:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E4A37B407 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A53B4300130; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:37:31 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chip To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FDISK Partition Editor Question Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:40:29 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092516402903.96094@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am doing an install on another spare machine and am just curious about something: In the FDISK Partition Editor I have choosen to use the entire disk, which then shows 3 partitions - Name PType Desc Subtype Flags ---------------------------------------------------- - 6 unused 0 ad0s1 3 FreeBSD 165 C - 6 unused 0 Now when I choose to Set Bootable, I am assuming I do that to the ad0s1 partition, right? What are the other two partitions? And why are there 3 of them anyway? I choose the option to use the entire disk afterall. -- Chip W. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message