Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:30:55 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: John Spence <jspence@tierzero.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD within an MSDOS extended partition. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961201183002.29896A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <32a4a746.4299246@sa.apana.org.au>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, John Spence wrote: > 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. This won't work, FreeBSD needs its own partition. You should shrink the DOS extended partition and have *unpartitioned* space into which FreeBSD will be installed. > > 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 > FreeBSD 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. > > Nadav
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