From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 15 7:26: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7755637B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 07:26:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:24:11 +0000 Received: from lexx (unverified [62.31.198.203]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:05:11 +0000 From: John Murphy To: Lutz Kittler Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use extended partition for freebsd Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:05:11 +0000 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: <8p149uc6h2bg3o29v7bbc25vbjn6ji15lm@4ax.com> References: <15505.50661.262712.96913@master.sse-erfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <15505.50661.262712.96913@master.sse-erfurt.de> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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