From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 15: 9:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C40E37B404 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp07.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GXKAUN01.PKA; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:08:47 +0200 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:09:28 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <4055880051.20020612000928@dds.nl> To: "Henning, Brian" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partitioning question In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello/Beste Brian, Thursday, June 06, 2002, 9:57:43 PM, you wrote: HB> Hello- HB> I am confused about partitioning my hard drive. I have one disk with the HB> following partitions. HB> Primary 1 - Windows 2000 Pro - NTFS : 5G HB> Primary 2 - FreeBSD - UFS : 5G HB> Primary 3 - Minix - MinixFS : 200M HB> Exented: HB> Logical 5 - Grub menu.list - EXT2FS 8M HB> Logical 6 - Swap - Linux Swap : 192M HB> Logical 7 - Debian - EXT2FS : 5G HB> Logical 8 - Redhat - EXT2FS : 5G HB> Logical 9 - BeOS - BFS : 4G HB> Logical 10 - Free Space - Fat32 : 3.5G HB> Is this the proper way to partitions this disk? Yes, i got 4 primary partitions. HB> I was told that only one primary partition should exist on a disk. HB> I am confused with debian because it thinks it exists on HB> /dev/hda11. I can't get it to boot with grub. Should I create a HB> couple of extended partitions and put freebsd and minix in those HB> partitions? I don't know what grub is. Are you able to boot from you logical partitions? (to debian?; i'm not used to debian) HB> thanks, HB> brian HB> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org HB> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message