Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:59:27 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Arnout Bruinsma <bruinsma31@zonnet.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <01112722592703.69260@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <3C03F491.6085C971@zonnet.nl> References: <3C03F491.6085C971@zonnet.nl>
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FreeBSD can only install into a primary partition. This is one of its major
limitations, actually.
But if you have PartitionMagic, this isn't really a problem; just shrink the
extended partition to meet the logicals within it and use the extra space for
a primary. FreeBSD sub-partitions itself, so you only need one primary
partition for FreeBSD.
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 15:16, Arnout Bruinsma wrote:
> Dear Sir/Lady,
>
> I bought a book called Free BSD Unleashed.
> With it came a cdrom containing disc 1 of Free BSD 4.4
> During installation I ran into a partition problem.
> According to Partition Magic my disk looks like this:
> ===========================================================================
>================================
>
> Partition Information for Disk 1: 39260.4 Megabytes
> Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
> TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects
> ===========================================================================
>================================
>
> C:WINDOWS C FAT32 Pri,Boot 3004.3 0 0
> 63 6,152,832 910,062 5,242,770
> ExtendedX Pri 36256.1 0 1 6,152,895
> 74,252,430 59,279,850 14,972,580
> EPBR Log 23.5 None --
> 6,152,895 48,195 48,195 0
> *:boot Debian Linux Ext2 Log,Boot 23.5 6152895 0
> 6,152,958 48,132 4,138 43,994
> EPBR Log 31.4 6152895 1
> 6,201,090 64,260 64,260 0
> *:boot SuSe Linux Ext2 Log 31.3 6201090 0
> 6,201,153 64,197 7,293 56,904
> EPBR Log 23.5 6201090 1
> 6,265,350 48,195 48,195 0
> Unallocated Log 23.5 6265350 0
> 6,265,413 48,132 1,558 46,574
> EPBR Log 13696.0 6265350 1 6,313,545
> 28,049,490 28,049,490 0
> D:WINDOWS D FAT32 Log 13696.0 6313545 0 6,313,608
> 28,049,427 1,118,616 26,930,811
> EPBR Log 7169.6 6313545 1 34,363,035
> 14,683,410 14,683,410 0
> *:Debian/GNU 2.2Linux Ext2 Log 7169.6 34363035 0
> 34,363,098 14,683,347 1,255,963 13,427,384
> EPBR Log 7004.9 34363035 1 49,046,445
> 14,346,045 14,346,045 0
> *:SuSe Linux 7.0Linux Ext2 Log 7004.9 49046445 0
> 49,046,508 14,345,982 2,662,750 11,683,232
> Free Space Log 7310.8 None -- 63,392,490
> 14,972,580 0 14,972,580
> EPBR Log 996.2 49046445 1
> 78,365,070 2,040,255 2,040,255 0
> *:SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap Log 996.2 78365070 0
> 78,365,133 2,040,192 8 2,040,184
>
> In short,my extended partion houses 2 boot partitions,Windows D ,and two
> operating systems (Debian,SuSe).
> There is space for a BSD boot partition/1st slice(23,5 Mb) and a root
> partition/2nd slice
> (Free space 7+Gb)
>
> But the BSD FDISK Partition Editor shows this:
>
> Offset Size
> End name Ptype
> Desc Subtype
>
> 0 63
> 62 -
> 6 unused 0
> 63 6152832 6152894
> ad0s1 2 fat
> 11
> 6152895 74252430 80405324
> ad0s2 4 extended 15
>
> 80405325 12915 80418239
> - 6 unused
> 0
>
> It seems I cannot enter the extended partition slice,and it is there
> that I would like to install BSD ,of course without disturbing my
> current configuration.
> As an extremely fresh newbie I apologize beforehand for asking a silly
> question and I thank you for your time .
> Getting an answer , though , would help me on my road in search for an
> operating system that suits me.
>
>
> Bij voorbaat dank,
>
> Arnout Bruinsma
>
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