From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 13 11:56:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74C4B15097 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 7658 invoked by uid 12); 13 Jun 1999 18:56:27 -0000 Message-ID: <19990613185627.7657.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.2 install on extended partition? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:56:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL51 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terribly sorry for what must be FAQ material, but I've looked through a dozen install guides, FAQs, handbooks, tutorials, and still haven't found a clear answer to these questions. 1. Can I install FreeBSD to an extended logical partition, or does it have to be installed on a primary partition? My drive 0 configuration: 1 primary partition: 128 MB, DOS 6.22 1 extended partiton: 1.6 GB 1 logical partition: 1.6 GB (entire extended partiton), formatted from DOS but contains no files If it has to be installed on a primary partition, how can I change the extended partition to a primary? DOS's fdisk won't let a drive have more than one primary. 2. If the partition has been high-level formatted, do I need to delete and recreate the partition? -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message