From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 16:33:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D689216A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:33:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from amex.kq.no (amex.kq.no [193.71.71.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577DA43D2F for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heine@mittlille.net) Received: by amex.kq.no (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 58866543ED; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.eunet.no (smtp.eunet.no [193.71.71.243]) by amex.kq.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2A654176 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from teddy.mittlille.net (unknown [217.8.138.132]) by smtp.eunet.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F6BC54C3 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:33:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:32:22 +0100 To: FreeBSD References: <032601c3d966$ea82d440$210110ac@ARLETTE> Message-ID: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Heine_Aarb=F8?= Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <032601c3d966$ea82d440$210110ac@ARLETTE> User-Agent: Opera7.23/FreeBSD M2 build 518 Subject: Re: Partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:33:44 -0000 On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:50:45 -0600, Teilhard Knight 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