From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 12:05:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08326 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08313 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA04304; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:07:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:07:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu 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. FreeBSD requires totally unallocated space. It creates its own slice and it's filesystem is not compatible with FAT. Thus, you'll have to shrink your extended partition so that the final 320mb of undefined space in the extended partition is totally unallocated. > 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 Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major