From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 20:42:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA07450 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:42:39 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA07442 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:42:24 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA08374; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:40:07 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510170410.NAA08374@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: partitioning To: jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Howland Jared Agnew) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:40:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Howland Jared Agnew" at Oct 16, 95 07:19:35 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1117 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howland Jared Agnew stands accused of saying: > > Question: > Does anyone know how to make a second partition on a IDE Hard > disk be a primary dos partition as the first one. I have two dos > partitions and one FreeBSD but BSD only sees the first dos partition. I > think it is because the second is an extended partition(logical). Any > ideas please write to jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu. You are right about the problem, released versions of FreeBSD don't support "extended" DOS partitions. However, you cannot convert an "extended" DOS partition easily into a "primary" partition, and if you did, you would only be able to see one of them at a time (if my memory of the rules of DOS partitions is correct). > H. Jared Agnew -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[