Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:06:32 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: davemeck <davemeck@drizzle.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS partition and BSD Message-ID: <3925ACD8.EC23EA53@3-cities.com> References: <006901bfc139$66a095c0$31c3a2d8@drizzle.net> <3924B0B1.61CD0D13@3-cities.com> <20000519182944.A233@parish>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 08:10:41PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > davemeck wrote: > > > > > > If I am going to install FreeBSD on a system that currently runs NT > > > 4 Workstation, and has both partitions formatted in NTFS, do I have > > > to create a third partion that is FAT formatted? > > > > You don't need to do anything except leave the space. The important > > part is the the "/" partition has to be in front of cylinder 1024. > > That equates to ~8.4GB. > ^^^^^^ > > Is this because of CHS translation? 1024 cyls used to equate to 504MB > (the original HD limit due to the lowest common denominator of IDE > spec and PC BIOS spec), then people started saying 1GB, then 2GB, now > you are saying 8.4GB (the limit of FAT16). Well 1024*255*63*512 = 8414461440 and that is what LBA translates configurations to. I have one system where "/" is just above my 2GB FAT16 primary partition and another where "/" is above 5GB. Both of the single FreeBSD slices are in excess of 10GB. I can boot to FreeBSD using boot1 and NTLDR in both cases. The first one is after my "C" drive is in front of the extended partition and the second one is the last partition on my system and is physically after the FAT16 primary partition and the extended partition. > > > The FreeBSD slice can exceed that. I have a > > 2GB Fat16, a 3GB Dos Extended partition and at the end, a 15GB FreeBSD > > slice. I create my own partitions for "/", swap, "/var", "/tmp", and > > "/usr" out of the 15GB. > > So obviously it isn't any of the (previous) lower limits. :) This only worked with 4.0. I had serious problems using this drive and 3.4-Stable on the first system I added a 20GB drive to. I could allocate my FreeBSD slice as the second HD partition but I couldn't add my extended partition after it. I also couldn't boot NT4 because it was too far out. Won one and lost the other :). > > > > > FreeBSD will create a single partition that includes all of them but > > that usually doesn't work on the larger drives. Especially when you > > are adding it at the end. By creating the 5 partitions, you don't have > > any problem with 4.0. I tried adding 3.4 on to the system but it > > created a partition that my PC would not recognize at boot. Version > > 4.0 has run pretty close to flawlessly. You just need to get it > > installed and upgrade to stable. You may not have any problems with > > the release version but they were some wavy hand things going on for > > me that went away with 4.0-Stable. I got confused writing this one. Kent > > > > Have fun, > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > Thank you for your time > > > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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