Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:32:22 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Heine_Aarb=F8?= <heine@mittlille.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <opr1ouf8axkwmjje@snmp.catch.no> In-Reply-To: <032601c3d966$ea82d440$210110ac@ARLETTE> References: <032601c3d966$ea82d440$210110ac@ARLETTE>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:50:45 -0600, Teilhard Knight <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1. I have created by means other than > the > installation program, a partitioning of my disk (160 Gig), and I want to > install on one of those partitions. I have three primary partitions and > one > extended where I have installed Linux in one logical partition. I want > FreeBSD to go in another logical partition. When I installed 4.7 in > another > computer, I had no problems whatsoever. But with 5.1 the partitioning > utility only sees the primary partitions, the first three and the > extended > one as a whole. It sees the extended partition as one partition without > the > logical ones created there. Apparently I must have the partition for > FreeBSD > as FAT, but other tools do not help me because the partition is too > large to > be FAT. For some reason the max size of a FAT partition on FreeBSD is limited to 137Gig. If you want a dualboot linux/FreeBSD (and windows) and have a shared area for all of them I would recomend you to make gaps for the OS you chose to install last (abaut 10 gig is suitable for most OS'es) and make a comon FAT partition on the end of the disk for archive(fat) -- Heine Aarbų heine@mittlille.net
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