From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 19:11:28 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 0ED3316A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:11:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C966343D1D for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 74CDC37E45; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:11:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.177]) by av7-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6517737E42 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:11:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 13B8B37E46 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 57188 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jul 2004 19:11:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:11:24 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Message-ID: <20040726191124.GA57091@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu , Joe Laws , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5ac5e3b004072611166f3bf090@mail.gmail.com> <20040726214859.33b15510@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040726214859.33b15510@it.buh.tecnik93.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Joe Laws cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD need to be on a Primary Partition? 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: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:11:28 -0000 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 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" -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se