From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 00:36:24 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 DEA9616A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A01143FE0 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:36:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7R7ZeCQ001748 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:35:54 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3F4C5F5E.4090302@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:35:58 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zd References: <000701c36c4d$69664ee0$b129c6ca@jlu.edu.cn> In-Reply-To: <000701c36c4d$69664ee0$b129c6ca@jlu.edu.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-SdV-Metrics: gemini 1179; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 07:36:25 -0000 Hi, this mailing list is for FreeBSD specific questions, so if you have further questions with regard to RedHat, look on their website which lists are appropiate. > 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. As it is not possible to have more than 4 primary partitions, the free space is wasted. You should have added it to the extended partition > 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? You can't use the free space as explained above. You must use the extended partition. This will be fine for Linux (but would fail for FreeBSD, as it needs a primary partition for its installation). Ciao Siegbert