Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 16:22:17 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Brian Lofton <lofton@okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk partition labeler Message-ID: <354BAAA9.D8706652@san.rr.com> References: <35489953.1E071F1D@okstate.edu>
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Brian Lofton wrote: > > I need some help. Skipping the hardware configuration portion of the > installation, I am confused as to how and where my BSD slice should > go. I have a 6.4 gig hard drive, and I am running Windows 95. I have > windows installed on the primary partition, the first 2 gigs, then I > have 3 logical partitions. I was intending the last partition to be > the one I installed BSD on, which contains about 1 gig. A DOS style fdisk (which is what freebsd uses so it stays compatible with your other operating systems) looks at all logical drives as one big partition (or one big slice to use the freebsd term). Therefore you can't install freebsd into just one logical drive, the only way to deal with that situation is to delete all of the logical drives, create the space you want for FreeBSD and then recreate the logical drives (using DOS fdisk). Of course, this will mean losing any data on your logical drives, so make sure you have backups of that info. In fact, you will probably want to have backups of anything that's important on the disk including the C partition. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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