From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 18:59:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E3716A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:59:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409F143D5A for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:59:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2NIxx6H015429; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2NIxxO0015428; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: RW Message-ID: <20050323185959.GA15303@thought.org> References: <20050323003314.GA9348@thought.org> <4240D81E.6060709@ec.rr.com> <20050323064422.GA11110@thought.org> <200503231822.44143.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503231822.44143.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:59:56 -0000 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +0000, RW wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: > > The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. > > Every options I have tries sees the "NTFS" as ad0s1. > > > > Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive > > to give me more than three slices? This is where the > > handbook gets muddy. > > > > Can anybody 'splain this better?? > > FreeBSD is not Linux. > > Linux uses the same partitioning as Windows, 4 primary partitions, or 3 > primaries and an extended partition. > > FreeBSD has its own type of partitioning scheme which you could put directly > onto the disk, but this is known as "dangerously-dedicated mode" since it > isn't compatible with other non-bsd OSs and might cause problems with some > BIOSes. > > Most people will install FreeBSD in what's known as a slice, this wraps a > group of native BSD partitions inside a normal PC primary partition. You only > need one slice for a FreeBSD installation. > > > > Which sections should I print out and go in a corner to read? > > The one called "Installing FreeBSD" If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3 SWAP ad0s4 /usr I tagged ad0s2 to be bootable; selected everything to be installed and okay the create script. /usr had trouble with newfs because of a bad superblock in 0s4. My guess is that the difficulty stems from a foul-up from the disk labeling. I've been installing BSD since 4.1 at Cal and FreeBSD since 2.0.5; I'm familiar with the standard protocols. This is my first go at trying to dual-boot such different systems. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix