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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: Help needed: fdisk troubles
In-Reply-To: <338f0d30.irs@irs.riga.lv> from Dmitry Solodov at "May 30, 97 07:23:59 pm"
To: dima@irs.riga.lv (Dmitry Solodov)
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 21:29:39 +0200 (MET DST)
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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
> 
>