Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:11:24 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD need to be on a Primary Partition? Message-ID: <20040726191124.GA57091@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20040726214859.33b15510@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <5ac5e3b004072611166f3bf090@mail.gmail.com> <20040726214859.33b15510@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:48:59PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:16:55 -0700 > Joe Laws <joe.laws@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Since I have about 10 partitions (3primary, 7 extended), I was > > wondering if BSD needs a root partition on one of the primary > > partitions. I have heard this is the case in some of the BSD's. > > Yes. What you call "primary partition" in the BSD world is called slice True, although I am not quite certain that FreeBSD actually must be booted from a primary partition. I think it depends on the bootmanager. I believe the default bootmanager does require a primary partition though, and the standard installation program probably also requires that so a primary partition is recommended. > and what you call "extended partitions" are called partiotions. Not quite true. Extended partitions are also called slices in BSD. BSD-partitions do not really have a counterpart in the DOS/Windows world. > > So for ad0s1a is: > ad0 = ide disk 0 (primary master) > s1 = first slice > a = first partition on the first slice (usually the / also called "root" partition) > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > will give you more details > > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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