Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:43:14 +0000 From: John Murphy <john@t-f-i.freeserve.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org, mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: Slices named X in FDISK Message-ID: <zxe=ONvCWf6KicBQ3WRZ259xDmvE@4ax.com>
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:53:36 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > >Arghh, sorry! I didn't spot it originally. You can only have a total >of 4 (DOS) partitions, either 4 primaries or, as you already have, 3 >primaries and a single extended. This is a limitation of PC hardware, >not the OS. You will find that you won't be able to use this free >space to create another FAT partition either. > >There's only 2 things I can suggest: > >1. Get rid of the OS/2 boot mangler and use the one that comes with >FreeBSD.You can then delete the partition it is using. Yep, that did the trick thanks. I should've known the FreeBSD boot "mangler" would be better, but I didn't realise it wouldn't need to use a slice. I guess it lives in the MBR; brilliant! > >2. Using PQ Magic move the extended to the end of the disk. Put the >OS/2 boot mangler after the FAT and make the remaining space, between >OS/2 and the extended, into one big FreeBSD partition. If you are >trying to set up 2 partitons for FreeBSD so that you can have a >separate ``/'' and ``/usr'' then you do this with the FreeBSD fdisk >within a single (DOS) partition. Remember a DOS partition is a FreeBSD >slice and that it then sub-divided into (FreeBSD) partitions - >different terminology. > >Sorry again for the original incorrect info. > Don't mention it. I'm _very_ grateful. Next step, a Kustom Kernel and enable dma. Yippeee. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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