From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 05:48:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B4816A4D0 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829B943D5A for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:48:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 10664 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 13:48:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 13:48:25 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:49:54 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: "Teilhard Knight" Message-Id: <20040113154954.4aa0d3ca@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <00b701c3d9d6$9c3d2ef0$210110ac@ARLETTE> References: <00b701c3d9d6$9c3d2ef0$210110ac@ARLETTE> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD_Newbies Subject: Re: Partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:33 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:10:19 -0600 "Teilhard Knight" wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1. I have created by means other than > the installation program, a partitioning of my disk (160 Gig), and I > want to install on one of those partitions. OK. > I have three primary partitions and one > extended where I have installed Linux in one logical partition. I want > FreeBSD to go in another logical partition. Not possible. > When I installed 4.7 in another > computer, I had no problems whatsoever. I doubt. > But with 5.1 the partitioning > utility only sees the primary partitions, the first three and the > extended one as a whole. You're talking about fdisk, right ? > It sees the extended partition as one partition without the > logical ones created there. Yes. > Apparently I must have the partition for FreeBSD as FAT, but other > tools do not help me because the partition is too large to be FAT. NO. FreeBSD partitions are UFS, with id 165 and not FAT. > Any help to solve this will be appreciated. You would do your self an us a a big favour reading: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user