From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 10:30: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E215137B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D276643E6E for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:29:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.83]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021026172956.IIPK12763.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:29:56 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g9QG9tp99771; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 12:09:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00d801c27d15$4d22d9b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: , References: <3DBACDE0.000002.21871@soapbox.yandex.ru> Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD 4.4 into EXTENDED Partition Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:29:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In installation programm of FreeBSD 4.4 I have select extended partition, FreeBSD said, that > this partition will be deleted (TOGETHER WITH LINUX NATIVE AND SWAP PARTITIONS!). > > How can I do something like this: > > > ============================================================================ ============ > | | EXTENDED | | | > |Primary (FAT32)|--------------------------------------|Primary (FAT32)|Primary (FAT32)|???? > | |Linux native|linux Swap|FreeBSD Slince| | | > ============================================================================ ============ > > Surely I have backup the first sector 512 bytes information and may experiment, but... Unless I'm mistaken, FreeBSD cannot use DOS Extended partitions for disk space. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message