Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:05:11 +0000 From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk> To: Lutz Kittler <Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use extended partition for freebsd Message-ID: <8p149uc6h2bg3o29v7bbc25vbjn6ji15lm@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <15505.50661.262712.96913@master.sse-erfurt.de> References: <15505.50661.262712.96913@master.sse-erfurt.de>
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>I have a problem installing freebsd. I have a machine with an >old BIOS and 2 disks in it. First disk is 1.6 GB with linux. >On the second disk I want to install FreeBSD and OpenBSD >for learning and testing. This disk has about 10 GB and 19650 >cylinders. I installed FreeBSD on this disk and tried to boot >it by LILO from first disk, but get only "-". >So I thought FreeBSD boot partition has to be in the first 1024 >cylinders. >After reading many documentations I wanted to do: > >- create boot-slice ad2s1 ( about 180 MB ) which contains only / >- create a slice ( may be 4GB )in extended partition for all > other swap, /tmp, /var and /usr > >The problem I have, I cannot tell FreeBSD during the installation >process to use the slice in the extended partition. You should ask technical questions of questions@freebsd.org however: You will need a primary partition on which to install FreeBSD and I think the same applies for OpenBSD. Also, you may be confused by slice/partition nomenclature. What DOS calls a partition, Unix calls a slice. If you can split the HD into two primary DOS partitions FreeBSD will see them as ad2s1 and ad2s2 (slice 1 and 2 respectively) you can then create filesystems within ad2s1 for / swap /usr etc. as required. These will be seen as ad2s1a etc. HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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