From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 13:44:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBAE37B90D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il ([212.179.182.166]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FY6007IW47NYB@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:43:06 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06254 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:37:24 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:37:24 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD onto second HDD In-reply-to: <20000723114219.O13979@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000723233723.A6164@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <397B3A5F.48D525BE@umbc.edu> <20000723114219.O13979@fw.wintelcom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:42:19AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Tamgiao Nguyen [000723 11:27] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 1> Is it possible to install FreeBSD, IN ITS ENTIRETY, onto the > > second IDE HDD? (All 4 primary partitions on my first HDD are in > > use.) > > > > 2> Must FreeBSD be installed to a primary partition (slice) or is > > it any-disk-any-partition like Linux? > > Yes, and yes (primary partition only). What is the reason behind that requirement (primary partition)? I thought a logical partition is just like any other partition, so what seems to be the problem - the loader? Maybe it's worth fixing (along with the <1024 cylinder requirement - new LILO versions & new BIOS'es are known to overcome that limit). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message