From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 18:33:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A90416A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:33:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038AB43D1F for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:33:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5GIXmeU003569; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:33:48 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j5GIXm2N003568; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:33:48 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:33:48 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: norseman Message-ID: <20050616183348.GH21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <42B1550D.449F53D5@firstlight.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B1550D.449F53D5@firstlight.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: confused new customer X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:33:52 -0000 On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:31:41AM +0000, norseman wrote: > To: FreeBSD et al > > I don't think this qualifies as a bug, but... > > Yesterday (well... now it's last week) I received a copy of FreeBSD > 5.4 in a 4-CD box along with the the usual invoice. The surprise was I > hadn't ordered it in many a year. All the information in the invoice > was correct and up to date. I don't know how this happened but IT IS OK, > at least this time! Tell you what - I'll keep the FreeBSD 5.4 CD set > and you keep the money my credit card company will send you. That should > make us both very happy. :) You need to contact the company that send you the disk (I'm guessing FreeBSD Mall). The FreeBSD project does not produce CDs (just ISO images). The rest of this post is more appropriate to the freebsd-questions list. > Obviously the above paragraph means I am a true novice with > FreeBSD. As such I have run into a snag. I've been using Slackware since > its first CD came out. I have a disk partitioned as follows: > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7296 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 255 2048256 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda2 * 256 1275 8193150 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda3 1276 7296 48363682+ 85 Linux extended > /dev/hda5 1276 1403 1028128+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda6 1404 2168 6144831 83 Linux native > /dev/hda7 2169 3698 12289693+ 83 Linux native > /dev/hda8 3699 7296 28900903+ 83 Linux native > > Command (m for help): > > > The idea was to use /dev/hda7 for FreeBSD, but FreeBSD seems to > have a problem with this disk. It will not acknowledge /dev/hda3 and > beyond. > > I looked into the Doc section of FreeBSD's website and found the > pertinent parts rather out of date. (No offense meant - the cry for help > with the Docs/man is right there on the home page.) This does present > the problem of what to do next. Slackware's fdisk has been quite happy > dealing with all the formats below. At least all I've had occasion to > use. (some are: DOS 1,4,6; Win 7,b,c,f; CP/M 52; Linux 82,83,85.) Yes - > some need modules to work, but at least the fdisk provides the clues as > to which. One gets used to something and forgets the whole world is not > the same. The initial assumption was that FreeBSD had the same tables > (abilities). > > > 0 Empty 1b Hidden Win95 FA 64 Novell Netware bb Boot Wizard hid > 1 FAT12 1c Hidden Win95 FA 65 Novell Netware c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- > 2 XENIX root 1e Hidden Win95 FA 70 DiskSecure Mult c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- > 3 XENIX usr 24 NEC DOS 75 PC/IX c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- > 4 FAT16 <32M 39 Plan 9 80 Old Minix c7 Syrinx > 5 Extended 3c PartitionMagic 81 Minix / old Lin da Non-FS data > 6 FAT16 40 Venix 80286 82 Linux swap db CP/M / CTOS / . > 7 HPFS/NTFS 41 PPC PReP Boot 83 Linux native de Dell Utility > 8 AIX 42 SFS 84 OS/2 hidden C: df BootIt > 9 AIX bootable 4d QNX4.x 85 Linux extended e1 DOS access > a OS/2 Boot Manag 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 86 NTFS volume set e3 DOS R/O > b Win95 FAT32 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 87 NTFS volume set e4 SpeedStor > c Win95 FAT32 (LB 50 OnTrack DM 8e Linux LVM eb BeOS fs > e Win95 FAT16 (LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 93 Amoeba ee EFI GPT > f Win95 Ext'd (LB 52 CP/M 94 Amoeba BBT ef EFI (FAT-12/16/ > 10 OPUS 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 9f BSD/OS f1 SpeedStor > 11 Hidden FAT12 54 OnTrackDM6 a0 IBM Thinkpad hi f4 SpeedStor > 12 Compaq diagnost 55 EZ-Drive a5 BSD/386 f2 DOS secondary > 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 56 Golden Bow a6 OpenBSD fd Linux raid auto > 16 Hidden FAT16 5c Priam Edisk a7 NeXTSTEP fe LANstep > 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 61 SpeedStor b7 BSDI fs ff BBT > 18 AST SmartSleep 63 GNU HURD or Sys b8 BSDI swap > > Command (m for help): > > > OK - First: any suggestions on adding FreeBSD to the existing > system (which is a laptop)? FreeBSD doesn't support installation on extended partions. This is unfortunate, but it's how things are today. We never developed support largly because FreeBSD has it's own partiion table that sets in a single MBR partion and thus we haven't needed extended partions like Windows and Linux. The CD is a live file system, you need to select the fixit option in the menu. This won't fix the extended partion issue. -- Brooks