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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:47:19 -0600
From:      Quintin Riis <webmaster@countrypure.net>
To:        Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing freebsd prob...
Message-ID:  <4048AF17.7070101@countrypure.net>
In-Reply-To: <4048A325.7070307@nbritton.org>
References:  <001a01c40298$23a3abf0$ee01a8c0@krieg> <4048A325.7070307@nbritton.org>

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``just did a quick search(1)''

That some new FreeBSD 5 thing?

		Quintin

Nikolas Britton wrote:
| Eric Draven wrote:
|
|> hi list,
|>
|> i'm trying to install freebsd 5.2 on my pc at home. the hard disk dual
|> boots with mandrake 9.1 and win xp. i wanted to install on the
|> partitions used by linux, however, in the partitioning portion of the
|> installation, the installer only read the fat partitions and not the
|> linux (ext3) partitions. i wonder why the installer can't view the
|> linux partitions; is there a solution to this? (without using
|> partitionmagic, etc...)
|>
|> btw, i'm installing from cd.
|>
|>
|> TIA
|> --------------------
|> rebX
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| Ask this on questions mailing list....
|
| first of all 5.2 has some isses, thats why 5.2.1 was released
| 2nd. unless you uses freebsd as a desktop os (X, spiffy apps, etc) or
| dont have a net connection you can get by by only downloading the mini
| iso disk (250MB) this disk has FreeBSD, Ports src tree, Man pages, and
| all of the FreeBSD source code on, and perl 5.6. from there you can
| download from the ports tree the software you need.
|
| Ok about your question what was it oh ext3...don't know if FreeBSD
| supports ext3 (at boot time), isnt ext3 journaling file system?, this is
| most liky your problem. FreeBSD et al. have there own file system called
| Fast File System (FFS, aka Unix File System UFS)  and FreeBSD 5.x uses
| UFS 2. if you use anything other then UFS your probly asking for trubble.
|
| just did a quick search(1) and it says that ext3 is backwards compatible
| with ext2 so you should be looking for info on Ext2 and FreeBSD, witch
| another quick search brings this up:
|
| The Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO:
| http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD.html
| MOUNT_EXT2FS(8)     FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ext2fs&sektion=8
|
| (1)
|
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=f2624885971d2646b28e56bf1256761c&goto=lastpost&threadid=11362

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