Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:25:03 -0500 (CDT) From: "Benjamin M. Manes" <maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu> To: Peter McGarvey <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> Cc: ifup <ifup@yifan.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: question before installing freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.990924141746.3158049D-100000@charlie.cns.iit.edu> In-Reply-To: <NDBBJLAJELEHNLGABIJNMEIFCKAA.Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk>
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> > 3. what is the name for /dev/hda3 (linux) in FreeBSD. If possible, I > > wish to avoid using fdisk like tool. Will it work, if I use Partition > > Magic to create a ext2 partition for it? > > FreeBSD uses UFS . It don't use ext2 - although it will mount ext2 > partitions. As for Partition Magic, well from memory it don't do UFS. I beta-tested PQ Magic 4.x and on. Actually, a new beta came last week, but to the wrong adress. <g> PQ Magic does not (and will not) support creating FreeBSD/386BSD partitions. It will recognize them, although I do not believe it can resize them. I may be wrong on the latter. For ext2, which is of course Linux (unil ext3 or xfs battle it out). It can create, resize, etc the partitions. With my experience with v4 and 4.1, I don't trust it. I found that when installing RedHat 5.05, the system went crazy (I tested it by not letting RH reformat). After a few reboots, all of my time-stamps were set to 04-01-80, and later my C: drive's (fat16) partition table was lost (which, through a bit of skill, I got the data back). I'd recomend that if you ever do use PQ Magic 4.x and Linux, use PQ Magic to organize the drive. Then use Linux's fdisk to recreate and reformat the partition. I was assured that this problem was/will be fixed in later releases. I did find one consumer user on SVLUG one time rant about a similar problem with v4.1. Luckily, I got mine for free. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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