From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 15:56:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vm4-ext.prodigy.net (vm4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.59.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB76914E11 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tetsuya1@prodigy.net) Received: from crap (RENOB103-27.splitrock.net [209.156.128.73]) by vm4-ext.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA193094; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:56:08 -0400 Message-ID: <000801beb6b9$3f2273a0$49809cd1@crap> From: "Tetsuya Watanabe" To: "Mark Ovens" , "Thierry Herbelot" Cc: References: <000901beb56d$a48142f0$b8809cd1@stralsund> <19990613103403.B255@marder-1> <3764BA2F.8E0EC9AB@telspace.alcatel.fr> <19990614190938.C254@marder-1> Subject: Re: Question re: FreeBSD3.2 from a Winodows user Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:57:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I finally decreased the size of the dos extended partiton and made a 1500MB space at the end of the ide primary mater. This makes FreeBSD "fdisk" find the right partiton for installation :> Thank you. Tetsuya ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Ovens To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: Tetsuya Watanabe ; Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Question re: FreeBSD3.2 from a Winodows user > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 10:15:43AM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Hello, > > > > NOTE WELL : you can not install FreeBSD in an extended partition > > > > Uh, I thought only / needed to be in a primary partition and the > /usr etc could be in an extended (although I've always used a > primary), but checking I see that you can't create a UFS in an > extended. > > Apologies for the mis-leading info > > -- > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov > _______________________________________________________________ > Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK > CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message