Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 21:29:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: dima@irs.riga.lv (Dmitry Solodov) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed: fdisk troubles Message-ID: <199705301929.VAA00239@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <338f0d30.irs@irs.riga.lv> from Dmitry Solodov at "May 30, 97 07:23:59 pm"
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> 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
^^^^^^^^
This is not supported by FreeBSD. You can only *mount* extended partitions
with msdos filesystems on it, but you cannot install FreeBSD on it.
> 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
> ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
> 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)
> ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
> 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.
Correct. And if you try to install on it, you will loose your F: and G:
partitions.
>
> 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 ?
No.
>
> 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 ?
This has to be answered by someone else on this list.
>
> Please reply to the e-mail address.
>
> Thanks in advance. Dmitry
> dima@irs.riga.lv
>
>
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