Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:04:54 -0600 From: "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> To: "FreeBSD_Newbies" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>, "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu@apropo.ro> Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <003201c3dc18$34b07050$210110ac@ARLETTE> References: <00b701c3d9d6$9c3d2ef0$210110ac@ARLETTE> <20040113154954.4aa0d3ca@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:10:19 -0600 > "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> wrote: > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1. I have created by means other than > > the installation program, a partitioning of my disk (160 Gig), and I > > want to install on one of those partitions. > > OK. > > > I have three primary partitions and one > > extended where I have installed Linux in one logical partition. I want > > FreeBSD to go in another logical partition. > > Not possible. > > > When I installed 4.7 in another > > computer, I had no problems whatsoever. > > I doubt. > > > But with 5.1 the partitioning > > utility only sees the primary partitions, the first three and the > > extended one as a whole. > > You're talking about fdisk, right ? > > > It sees the extended partition as one partition without the > > logical ones created there. > > Yes. > > > Apparently I must have the partition for FreeBSD as FAT, but other > > tools do not help me because the partition is too large to be FAT. > > NO. FreeBSD partitions are UFS, with id 165 and not FAT. > > > Any help to solve this will be appreciated. > > You would do your self an us a a big favour reading: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html Thank you very much for your comments. I think that I learned from this experience. I hope one day to be able to help other newbies, but I am very short of time. Maybe that's the reason I keep being a newbie myself, although I installed 4.7 several months ago. Teilhard
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