Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:48:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD slice in an extended partition ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171448090.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <374071B6.A306E7FB@cybercable.fr>
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The subject describes it better. No, you can't do that. FreeBSD must occupy the entire slice. On Mon, 17 May 1999, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to install RH6.0 on my home machine, so I deleted wd0s3e > where I stored some BSD data (to get an entry for a bootable partition > in the partition table). > > wd0s3e was 4G in size, so I used 80M for a / partition in wd0s3 and I've > created 3 partitions inside an extended partition (slot wd0s4 of the > partition table) : 128Megs linux swap, 1,8 G for linux data, then what > is left (2G) for FreeBSD. > > figure : > <wd0s1 = FAT><wd0s2 = 3.1 slice><wd0s3=linux root> > <s5=linux swap><s6=linux /usr><s7=available> > > The remaining slice (wd0s7) can be accessed as a DOS partition (the > example given is the FAQ applies and gives a 2G FAT partition), but I'd > prefer it as a BSD partition. > tfh# newfs_msdos /dev/rwd0s7 > /dev/rwd0s7: 4248824 sectors in 531103 FAT32 clusters (4096 > bytes/cluster) > bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=255 hid=8337798 > bsec=4257162 bspf=4150 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2 > tfh# mount_msdos /dev/wd0s7 /mnt > tfh# df /mnt > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s7 2124412 4 2124408 0% /mnt > tfh# > > I've looked at disklabel(8) and fdisk(8), but I don't see much help : > disklabel -w wd0s7 auto fails with : > tfh# disklabel -w wd0s7 auto > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type > tfh# disklabel -w /dev/rwd0s7 auto > disklabel: "auto" requires the usage of a canonical disk name > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type > > Do I need to create a new entry in /etc/disktab ? Is it simply possible > to use an extended partition for FreeBSD ? > > TIA > > TfH > > BTW : my RH6.0 install is still not satisfactory, as I haven't ben able > to boot from the newly loaded partition (it seems the mkinitrd phase was > not successful) - has anyone been able to make a full install, directly > from the 'Net, without loading the RPMs in advance ? > > PS : > tfh# uname -a > FreeBSD tfh.herbelot.nom 3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: > Thu May 6 20:53:57 CEST 1999 > thierry.herbelot@herbelot.tfh.nom:/usr/src/sys/compile/TFH_31 i386 > tfh# > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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