From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 08:32:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20324 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 08:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20319 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 08:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA29904; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:30:56 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:30:55 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: John Spence cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD within an MSDOS extended partition. In-Reply-To: <32a4a746.4299246@sa.apana.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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