Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:47:02 -0500 From: Vladislav <reason@shadow.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q]Extended Partion Slice for FBsd Install? Message-ID: <99112722485801.00761@ararat> In-Reply-To: <99112722245800.00761@ararat> References: <99112722245800.00761@ararat>
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Well, Just read Linux+FreeBSD mini Howto and it answered my question (http://www.ssc.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-2.html) I cannot do it. Sorry, I shoud have read it earlier, I tried the Docs available during the install process and the handbook ( I have a printed copy) but it was not there. Vladislav On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Vladislav wrote: > -------------------------------- > FreeBSD 3.3 (release). > PII 266 dual > Soyo motherboard with LX chipset (latest BIOS is installed). > ------------------------------- > Hello, > I am in a quest to install a bunch of Operating systems on my new > 20 Gb hard disk (IDE, Maxtor Diamond Plus) > > Because I cannot have more then 4 primary partitions on a Disk, > I need to put FreeBSD and Linux on two separate slices (logical > disks) of an extended partion. > Linux can be installed, but when I try FreeBSD, I do not see my > logical drive (6) during the Fdisking process in FreeBSD install (actually, > I do not see any of my logical drives). > The only thing I see is the extended partion wd0s1, wd0s2, wd0s3, wd0s4 (this > is my extended partion). > What I want to see is wd0s5 (Linux) and wd0s6 (FreeBSD) > and wd0s7 (OpenBSD). > How did I get my logical and primary drives? .... > Well... I used Linux's fdisk program that allowed my to allocate > all the slices. In there I specificaly assigned /dev/hda6 to be > of type 0x5a (In freebsd this would be /dev/wd0s6, type 165). > > Am I doing something wrong, or am I doing something impossible? > > Another thing, may be this matters.... > When using Linux's fdisk, I had to manually specify number of heads > and cylinders, because somehow it was getting it incorrectly (probably because > of LBA enabled on my IDE).... But FreeBSD gets it right (and there is no option > to specify disk geometry anyways in its disk label program). > > And by the way, I do see the logical slices just fine in /dev (I try running > fixit with life fs cdrom). > It is just that I somehow cannot see them during that fdisk process. > > -- > Thanks in advance for any help, > Vladislav > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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