Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 08:38:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: "John A. Parsons" <parsons2@mail.sdsu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Can I install FreeBSD on a "logical" partition? Message-ID: <XFMail.010903083849.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <3B91555F.A74D5047@mail.sdsu.edu>
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On 01-Sep-01 John A. Parsons wrote: > The harddisk I am using has 1. an OS/2 Boot Manager (primary partition), > 2. OS/2 WARP4 (2nd primary partition), 3. Windows 98SE (3rd primary > partition) and a large Extended Partition (the 4th primary partition) > with space available for the FreeBSD OS. Can FreeBSD be installed on a > logical partition (instructions?) or only to a primary partition? Primary only I'm afraid. However if you can shrink either the OS/2 or Windows partition some 100 Megs, that space can be used for the root filesystem for FreeBSD. It is then OK to let /usr, /tmp, /var and the swap partition reside in the extended partition. (Someone check if that is actually true with the swap?). Make sure that the 100Meg partition is within the 1024-cylinder boundary. This is not neccesary with new machines, but better safe than sorry, else you cannot boot. Or you can do as I once did. Destroyed the windows partition and reclaimed that space for FreeBSD. I used OS/2 and FreeBSD on the same box for over two years, until I finally also dropped OS/2. FreeBSD does all I ever wanted. But I still miss the OS/2 workplace. > > Thanks for any help. > > John Parsons > john.parsons1@juno.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-RC ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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