From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 2 23:38:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3563A37B403 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 23:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f836cih02784; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 08:38:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B91555F.A74D5047@mail.sdsu.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 08:38:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: "John A. Parsons" Subject: RE: Can I install FreeBSD on a "logical" partition? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 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