From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 10 18:21:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03401 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03388 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA23254; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:50:50 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980711105050.A23241@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:50:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kostia Sampsa EXT/ICL , "'smtp:questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD into a 9G HD's last p References: <1998Jul10.100434.1935.1647245@ntcit-mmta18.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <1998Jul10.100434.1935.1647245@ntcit-mmta18.ntc.nokia.com>; from Kostia Sampsa EXT/ICL on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 10:16:45AM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 10 July 1998 at 10:16:45 +0300, Kostia Sampsa EXT/ICL wrote: > I'm having a small problem with my installation of FreeBSD. > I have a 9G HD, with C,D,E,F,G partitions, C primary, others are logical > drives in the extended > partition. DOS sucks I know. BUT the problem is, I want to install FreeBSD > to the last partition, G, > but the install program wont let me. I shows The wd0s0 first 2.1G partition > which is the primary, > and the extended partition 2.1G wd0s1 which is the extended partition, and > shows a '>' mark in the > end that it doesn't stop on 1024 bytes or sumthing. What must I do to be > able to unpack the > freebsd into the last logical drive. Yes, that's what your message looked like. I'm sure that wasn't your intention--see http://www.lemis.com/email.html for reasons. Let's try to fix it... > I'm having a small problem with my installation of FreeBSD. I have > a 9G HD, with C,D,E,F,G partitions, C primary, others are logical > drives in the extended partition. DOS sucks I know. BUT the problem > is, I want to install FreeBSD to the last partition, G, but the > install program wont let me. I shows The wd0s0 first 2.1G partition > which is the primary, and the extended partition 2.1G wd0s1 which is > the extended partition, and shows a '>' mark in the end that it > doesn't stop on 1024 bytes or sumthing. What must I do to be able to > unpack the freebsd into the last logical drive. You can't install FreeBSD in an extended partition. You'll have to truncate the partition in which it is located and create a new one later. I don't know if Microsoft will get upset if you delete the G partition and change the boundaries of the second "real" partition, but if you do, you will then be able to make a third partition for FreeBSD--*if* your BIOS will boot from there. There's a good chance that it will be limited to the first 8 GB or less (down to as low as 504 MB). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message