Date: 29 Sep 1998 08:07:29 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aiming install routine at source directory on dos Message-ID: <m3u31rez4e.fsf@chub.local> In-Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells"'s message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:26:22 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809282257080.3140-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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"Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> writes: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Harry Putnam wrote: > >Theres the rub. I'm being shown three possibilities. Two columns, one > >colored yellow the other black, same entry in both columns. > >wd0s1 wd0s1 > >wd0s2 wd0s2 > >wd1s1 wd1s1 > >Do the above represent C D E or is wd1 a different disk? I understand the C,D,E is windows speak, but am asking if the listed partitions are the same ones. > Simple things first, wd1 is a different physical disk than wd0. Wd0 is the > master drive and wd1 is the slave. That was my take too. So the offered dos partitions are confusing since there are none on wd1 > > Did you mean to say that you have two partitions (C, D) on the first drive > plus one partition on the E drive? No. > wd0 is the first IDE drive. <== Your windows stuff. > wd1 is the second IDE drive. <== Your Linux stuff. The linux bootup screens give this picture of the bios setup: (pared down for brevity) o Pri. Master Disk : LBA ,Mode 4, 3166MB Parallel Port(s) : 378 o Pri. Slave Disk : LBA ,Mode 4, 3166MB EDO DRAM at Row(s): 0 o Sec. Master Disk : CDROM,Mode 3 SDRAM at Row(s) : None o Sec. Slave Disk : None L2 Cache Type : Looking at the respective drives with linux fdisk gives this picture. o Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 767 cylinders o Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes o o Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System o /dev/hda1 * 1 1 257 1036192+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M o /dev/hda2 259 259 767 2052288 5 Extended o /dev/hda5 259 259 517 1044256+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M o /dev/hda6 518 518 767 1007968+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M I've lost track through various adjustments etc of how the numbering arrived at what it is. But the dos disk above Is one HDD divided into 3 partitions. One primary (1) the last two (5,6 logical) enclosed in an extended partition(2).. o Disk /dev/hdb: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 767 cylinders o Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes o o Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System o /dev/hdb1 1 1 563 2269984+ 5 Extended o /dev/hdb2 * 564 564 664 407232 a5 BSD/386 o /dev/hdb5 1 1 9 36225 82 Linux swap o /dev/hdb6 10 10 467 1846624+ 83 Linux native o /dev/hdb7 468 468 476 36256+ 82 Linux swap o /dev/hdb8 477 477 563 350752+ 83 Linux native This one also has an extended partition that I adjusted on advice form a poster on BSD-current, so that it stops just before the BSD partition (slice) begins There is also still a section from 563 to 767 that is uncharted.(previously an ext2 file system) So here we have and extended partiton (1) surrounding linux partitions (5-8) and beyond that a BSD `slice' (2 primary) Apparently the install routine is seeing the extended partions as dos but not seeing what is inside them. ****8< snipped details of BSD naming (thank you) > Assuming that you want to wipe out windows :P and keep Linux and FreeBSD > you will be installing FreeBSD into wd0s1 or wd0s2. What I had hoped to do is ignore the dos partition (other than as a holding ground for the BSD install files) and install BSD on the second disk (Primary slave) where I've put its `slice' as above. Choosing any of the offered `dos' partitions to install from ends with this message: o Error mounting /dev/wd0s1 [wd0s2/wd1s1 ed] on /dist: Operation not o permitted. I understand the above to be trying to mount a dos partition so as to be able to access the files waiting there, to be installed. Is that a right assumption? Or is something completely different going on here? Thanks for the details -- Still confused though. PS- during install, at the point where you are expected ot setup the actual BSD partitions within its `slice'. F1 will get you a good explanation of BSD numbering etc of partitions. What/where is that text taken from? Surely it must be available besides on the boot floppy. -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com Running Redhat Linux-5.1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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