From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 07:44:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA18492 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 07:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (root@tierzero.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA18487 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 07:44:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from async-3.pasa.apana.org.au (async-3.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.23]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA18733 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 02:14:35 +1030 (CST) From: jspence@tierzero.apana.org.au (John Spence) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD within an MSDOS extended partition. Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 02:13:39 +1030 Message-ID: <32a4a746.4299246@sa.apana.org.au> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm planning to buy the FreeBSD 2.1.6 realease on CDROM and I'm trying to prevent problems before they happen. The plan is to install FreeBSD to the unused section of my MSDOS extended partition. Current setup created with MSDOS' FDISK is: Primary : 600M Extended 620M Extended is currently divided up into Logical D: 150M Logical E: 150M Last 320Meg is undefined Which should leave approximately 320M free of my extended to create a =46reeBSD swap of about 20M and the rest for a FreeBSD filesystem. I have browsed the FreeBSD handbook for release 2.1.5 and found no mention of a similar setup, which is the reason I ask here. If anyone has a better strategy for common sense or performance reasons, I'd like to hear about it. I have no previous FreeBSD experience at all but I did install Linux in the above mentioned partition recently. It (Linux) worked ok but I want to have a look at another free Unix before I start taking things seriously.