Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:49:54 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD_Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <20040113154954.4aa0d3ca@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <00b701c3d9d6$9c3d2ef0$210110ac@ARLETTE> References: <00b701c3d9d6$9c3d2ef0$210110ac@ARLETTE>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:10:19 -0600 "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> 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
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