From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 15:35:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sh.stonehenge-net.com (dsl081-053-198-sfo1.dsl-isp.net [64.81.53.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF3F37B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:35:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@stonehenge-net.com) Received: from stonehenge-net.com ([162.70.219.147]) by sh.stonehenge-net.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18106 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:35:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3AA81735.1040208@stonehenge-net.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:35:17 -0800 From: ben User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010306 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing with extended partitions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG my IT department has just decided to install a new image file on my laptop consisting of 2 different NTFS partitions with different $PATH variables, (to run 2 different versions of powerbuilder on) a third for shared stuff, and a small hidden partition with bootmagic, so the 2 bootable partitions won't mount each other. i can squeeze these down small enough to still have 4.8 or so gigs for FreeBSD, but when i use partition magic to set up the last NTFS partition as a logical partition within an extended partition, FreeBSD's installer won't see the NTFS partition - it just shows me the extended whole extended partitionas ad0s4. is there a way for it to see the logical partitions? is this a partition magic bug? thanks Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message