From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 12:00:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11979 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11885 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00495; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:59:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:59:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sir Dimitri cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extended Partitions In-Reply-To: <356DB892.FD4EBECE@geocities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 May 1998, Sir Dimitri wrote: > Hi! > I want to install FreeBSD on my computer. > I partitioned my disk, into two partitions: C:\ (Where Windows 95 is > actually running) and D:\ (Where I want to install FreeBSD). > But then, I read something that said that I couldn't install FreeBSD on > a Extended partition. That's correct. > But in the Installing and Using FreeBSD with other OS Web Page, said > that they can be together in the same disk. That is also correct. DOS filesystems and FreeBSD can coexist, but you have to install FreeBSD in it's own partition (we call slice) type. > I am completely confused and frustrated, thinking that I can't install > FreeBSD on partition D:\. What you want to do is delete the extended partition which contains d: (I assume C: is a DOS Primary) then install FreeBSD in the empty space. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message