From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 14:40:42 2002 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 8A68837B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FE643E42 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:40:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:40:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Installing on a logical DOS partition From: "Jud" To: justsovanilla@yahoo.co.in Cc: barbish@a1poweruser.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:40:30 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1027374030.59ab4ffcjud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: "Jud" To: justsovanilla@yahoo.co.in Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:31:00 -0400 Subject: Re: Re: Installing on a logical DOS partition -----Original Message----- From: "Piyush" To: , Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 23:14:53 +0530 Subject: Re: Installing on a logical DOS partition ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Joe & Fhe Barbish=20 To: Piyush=20 Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: RE: Installing on a logical DOS partition FBSD does not install into DOS partitions. During the FBSD install it wil= l show you the primary hard drive. If the dos partition is on the primary= HD you will have to use commands from the screen that displays the HD, t= o delete the DOS partition and allocate the FBSD slice to that free space= . =20 Isn't it possible to use the space in the DOS partition for FBSD,I dont = mind formatting it as 165(the FBSD filesystem),i just don't know how to a= llocate space on my hard-disk for freebsd is this possible(keeping my Win= dows primary partition which stores Windows......)......and if possible h= ow? I've already installed Linux(Red-hat,mandrake,suse)and I was thinking= on those lines where you can ask Linux to use a particular partition for= it and then format it to ext2 and run Linux.......Is something like this= possible thro' Fbsd? Thanx...... Piyush _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It amounts to exactly the same thing - when the=20 installation is done you'll have a FreeBSD "slice"=20 where the DOS "partition" was. You'll be shown=20 a screen during the installation that lists the=20 partitions (Windows language) or slices (FreeBSD=20 language) on your machine, which will show an area=20 on the disk being used for DOS. First delete the=20 DOS partition, then create a FreeBSD slice in the=20 emptied space (it's very quick and simple). Then=20 proceed with the rest of the installation. Jud _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ My apologies, Piyush, I may have steered you wrong. I failed to take sufficient note of the fact that you're speaking of *logical* DOS partitions. Start the install (you can cancel out of it) and see if the DOS partition is shown in the list of slices/partitions. If it is, you're good to go. If not, them I'm afraid you'd need to do some reworking of your partitions/slices with a program like Partition Magic or (less expensive but IMHO excellent) BootitNG from Terabyte Unlimited. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message