From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 27 17:10:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE7937B41A for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020228011019.EKHT22101.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:10:19 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1S1BMj12241; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:11:22 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1S1BPB48867; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:11:25 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 01:11:25 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Greg Black Cc: Michael Lucas , Steve Tremblett , Thierry Herbelot , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting started with -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020228011125.E48231@localhost> References: <20020227102056.A21989@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <3C7D25C3.85B66088@herbelot.com> <20020227141328.A65111@blackhelicopters.org> <20020227142331.F22223@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <20020227142613.A65309@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gjb@gbch.net on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:58:33AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > Michael Lucas wrote [top post put down where it belongs]: > > | On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote: > | > Thanks for the help - much appreciated. > | > > | > I guess I'm misunderstanding the primary disk partitions and their > | > types - I seem to recall PCs getting cranky when there are multiple > | > primary partitions of the same type? Or is it that WINDOWS gets cranky > | > when it sees that? > | > | That would probably be Windows. I'm doing exactly this, without > | trouble. > > No, there's no problem doing this with Windows (at least with > Windows-ME) -- I have Win-ME on my laptop (so I can say "it > works under Windows" when something is broken) with two FreeBSD > partitions: 4.3-R (which works) and -CURRENT (in which PCMCIA is > completely broken). But booting any of the 3 OSes works fine. > > Greg Not quite the same thing, but IME Windows (at least up to Win2K), *really* likes to have the first partition table entry for itself, and to live at the start of the disk. I had a horrible time getting W2K to install at the slow end of the disk on this machine -- where it belongs, as I use it perhaps 5% of the time -- manual editing of the partition table was needed in the end :-( I've certainly had machines with multiple, primary Windows partitions before now, with no obvious problems. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message