From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 3: 8: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0736737B79C for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 03:08:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp44-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.236]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA05769; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:07:32 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 11:09:53 GMT Message-ID: <20000304.11095300@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Slices named X in FDISK To: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000303005336.F327@marder-1> References: <20000303005336.F327@marder-1> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/3/00, 1:53:36 AM, Mark Ovens wrote=20 regarding Re: Slices named X in FDISK: =20 > > >Your 'X' partition, which *must* be a primary to use for FreeBSD=20 comes > > >after the extended partition. This is not allowed. All primary > > >partitions must come before the extended partition. > > > > > >HTH Dear Mark Ovens, I am not sure that your remark is fully correct and generally valid. I HAVE installed one FreeBSD slice of mine *after* an extended=20 partition. More precisely, on my 3rd IDE disk, the first partition IS=20 extended and contains a Linux installation; the second partition (in=20 DOS parlance) IS a FreeBSD slice containing part of an experimental=20 FreeBSD installation of mine (ie its /usr FS). In the FreeBSD installation in question, I use "b0ff" flags for my=20 third disk; Linux and FreeBSD see the disk in the same LBA fashion=20 (same "geometry") :-)=20 Needless to say, that FreeBSD installation of mine appears to work=20 like charm. Incidentally, I seem to recall (Linux+FreeBSD mini-howto et al.) that,=20 if one wishes to install Linux in an extended partition AND FreeBSD on=20 the same disk, one is advised to put the Linux extended partition=20 *before* the FreeBSD slice(s). Otherwise, Linux may get confused and=20 #@=A7^*+=A3$%&? [wild screams of despear trimmed and censored] Best regards, Salvo =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message