Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:09:11 -0500 From: Vladislav <reason@shadow.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: [Q]Extended Partion Slice for FBsd Install? Message-ID: <99112722245800.00761@ararat>
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-------------------------------- FreeBSD 3.3 (release). PII 266 dual Soyo motherboard with LX chipset (latest BIOS is installed). ------------------------------- Hello, I am in a quest to install a bunch of Operating systems on my new 20 Gb hard disk (IDE, Maxtor Diamond Plus) Because I cannot have more then 4 primary partitions on a Disk, I need to put FreeBSD and Linux on two separate slices (logical disks) of an extended partion. Linux can be installed, but when I try FreeBSD, I do not see my logical drive (6) during the Fdisking process in FreeBSD install (actually, I do not see any of my logical drives). The only thing I see is the extended partion wd0s1, wd0s2, wd0s3, wd0s4 (this is my extended partion). What I want to see is wd0s5 (Linux) and wd0s6 (FreeBSD) and wd0s7 (OpenBSD). How did I get my logical and primary drives? .... Well... I used Linux's fdisk program that allowed my to allocate all the slices. In there I specificaly assigned /dev/hda6 to be of type 0x5a (In freebsd this would be /dev/wd0s6, type 165). Am I doing something wrong, or am I doing something impossible? Another thing, may be this matters.... When using Linux's fdisk, I had to manually specify number of heads and cylinders, because somehow it was getting it incorrectly (probably because of LBA enabled on my IDE).... But FreeBSD gets it right (and there is no option to specify disk geometry anyways in its disk label program). And by the way, I do see the logical slices just fine in /dev (I try running fixit with life fs cdrom). It is just that I somehow cannot see them during that fdisk process. -- Thanks in advance for any help, Vladislav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the messagehome | help
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