From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 30 09:38:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA24098 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 09:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from racoon.riga.lv (racoon.riga.lv [194.8.12.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24092 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 09:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stoat.riga.lv (uuirs@stoat.riga.lv [194.8.12.138]) by racoon.riga.lv (8.8.4/8.7.3/OL.cf-2.3) with SMTP id TAA11417 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 19:37:46 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from irs.UUCP by stoat.riga.lv with UUCP id AA05683 (5.65.kiae-1 for questions@freebsd.org); Fri, 30 May 1997 19:33:52 +0300 Received: by irs.riga.lv (UUPC/extended 1.12p); Fri, 30 May 1997 19:24:00 +0200 Message-Id: <338f0d30.irs@irs.riga.lv> Date: Fri, 30 May 97 19:23:59 +0200 From: Dmitry Solodov Subject: Help needed: fdisk troubles To: questions@freebsd.org X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] for OS/2 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, The CD-ROM with 2.2.1 arrived at last. Now the real problem. There are 3 SCSI disks in the PC, FreeBSD is dreamed to be installed on the 3rd HDD on H: extended partition. The reason extended partitition is planed for FreeBSD install, is that if primary partition is created, then OS/2 and NT installations on other disks will have big mess with drive letters. I can remap disks under NT, but it's not possible with OS/2. And existing OS/2 boot manager may boot from both primary and extended partitions. When OS/2 fdisk is run, it shows the following picture for the 3rd SCSI disk: Partition Information Name Status Access FS Type MBytes 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� None : Primary FreeSpace 7 Merlin Bootable F: Logical HPFS 1019 None G: Logical HPFS 517 None H: Logical Unformatted 502 When FreeBSD fdisk is run through Novice installation, it shows for the same disk ( /dev/sd2) 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 Disk geometry: 261 cyls/255 heads/ 63 sectors = 4192965 sectors 0 16065 16064 - 6 unused 0 16065 4176900 4192964 sd2s1 4 extended 5 4192965 1339 4194303 - 6 unused 0 So for me it seems like FreeBSD fdisk sees all the extended partitions as one big partition. The approach when free space is left on the disk, and then the partition is created with FreeBSD fdisk does not work for me, as in this case primary partition is created. But FreeBSD boots fine in the case. What do I miss ? What may be done ? Is it possible to create extended partition with FreeBSD fdisk ? Another thing. There is SCSI Iomega ZIP disk. It's visiable under both OS/2 fdisk and NT's Disk Administrator, but FreeBSD installation does not show it. Is there a way to install FreeBSD on SCSI ZIP disk ? Please reply to the e-mail address. Thanks in advance. Dmitry dima@irs.riga.lv