Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:59:45 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> Cc: dmitry_makovey@mail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <3958CF71.6D65C703@3-cities.com> References: <3958BDF3.B6C4A3E8@ids.pl> <395893C7.FA2CFDD4@i-clue.de>
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Christoph Sold wrote: > > Dmitry Makovey wrote: > > > > Can I install FreeBSD on logical disk in extended partition? > No. You need one DOS partition table entry, that is (in DOS parlance) > partition 1-4. This translates to FreeBSD slice 0-3. > > > I have Linux & Win95 installed, and wanna try FreeBSD (as an > > alternative OS for Linux) > > So I have (in Linux terms): > > /dev/hda1 - windows > > /dev/hda2 - ext. partition > > /dev/hda3 seems to be available. Swap and all the other stuff will be > maintained inside the DOS partition 3. Unfortunately, some > repartitioning will be needed: FreeBSD wants its root partition to fit > completely into the very first GB of your boot disk. Your last statement is not true when you use 4.0, if you have LBA turned on. It still has to be in cylinders 0-1023 but hat works out to less than 8.4GB (1024x255x63x512). I have two system with slices larger than 10GB that share the main drive with Win98/NT4/W2K/FreeBSD and on one of them the 100MB / partition is loaded above 5.GB. The 13GB FreeBSD slice comes after a 2GB Fat, and 3GB extended partition. Kent > > Alternatively, you may install FreeBSD onto a second disc. > > > /dev/hda5 - Linux / > > /dev/hda6 - free (but I can move here /home) > > /dev/hda7 - Linux swap > > /dev/hda8 - Linuix /home > > HTH > -Christoph Sold > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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