From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 20:42:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176F616A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from email.jlu.edu.cn (email.jlu.edu.cn [202.198.16.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BD6843F85 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zd@email.jlu.edu.cn) Received: (qmail 18743 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 03:18:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zd) (202.198.41.177) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Aug 2003 03:18:44 -0000 Message-ID: <000701c36c4d$69664ee0$b129c6ca@jlu.edu.cn> From: "zd" To: "subscribe freebsd-questions" Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:43:42 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Subject: how do i allot the partition for red hat 9? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:42:55 -0000 hello,all: my disk have had 4 primary partitions:one fat16,one fat32,one ufs,and an extended.and, i have some other free space without any file system made on it.i would like to install red hat 9 useing the free space, but don`t know how to make the partition layout.should i allot the file system for red hat 9 inside the extented partition?if not,how can i deal with it? thanks in advance! eagon