Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:04:05 +0100 From: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 on large disk shared with Windows Message-ID: <200408221504.06485.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20040822133505.02af5430@mail.totalise.co.uk> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20040822133505.02af5430@mail.totalise.co.uk>
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On Sunday 22 August 2004 13:49, John Michaels wrote: > I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with > FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then > 'follow along' the book. > > I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which > already has Windows Me (and Slackware). Because of Windows not always > behaving itself, I have split the 60Gb into (10Gb and 20Gb) for > windows and 5Gb for slackware. These are primary partitions. An > extended partition holds swap and /home logical partitions. Half of > the remaining space of 10Gb was to be allocated to FreeBSD. > > I started installation, went into the 'fdisk' to create a 'slice' of > 5000M for FreeBSD. This was done. The next screen asked about > bootmanagers, I asked for it and then the next screen gave the > following message: > > Disk slicing warning > Max one 'fat' allowed as child of whole > > When I hit enter, no other option available, the installation returns > me to the disk partitioning screen. This cycle repeats. The only way > out is by cancelling the installation. > > I have more than one fat partition to reduce chances of Windows > crashing and spending hours in scandisk checking the various disks. > Surely with the large disks now available, my problem is quite > common? Am I right in assuming that FreeBSD does not allow more than > one 'FAT' partition on any disk? Why? I don't think there is any such restriction But I don't understand what you have done here. You can have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primaries and one extended. If you have windows on two primary partitions and slackware on a primary and extended partition then you have no partition left to put FreeBSD on.
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