Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:04:21 -0500 (EST) From: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> To: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition with Partition Magic Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990204175709.13163B-100000@bingsun1> In-Reply-To: <36BA2036.B4BBB574@finsco.com>
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> > > zhihuizhang wrote: > > > ><snip> FreeBSD only shows three > > partitions. The first is marked as "unused", actually it is the primary > > DOS partition (63 blocks). It can not find the ninth partition which is > > free. > > > > Is PartitionMagic (by PowerQuest) compatible with FreeBSD? Can I use > > SYSTEM COMMANDER (I guess it is the boot manager) with FreeBSD (choose > > leave boot record intact)? Why FreeBSD can not find the free partition? > > I use both Partition Magic and System Commander and they work just fine > for me (win95/freebsd 3.0). > However, I'm set up differently. I run FreeBSD on a second drive (which > happens to be scsi). > > The thing that bothers me is that you have *nine* partitions? and you > want to run on the 9th? > Sounds like you have an extended partition and maybe you are trying to > use one of the sub partitions > of that for FreeBSD. I tried that once with no success. I don't think it > can be done, but perhaps > someone here knows how to do it. > The nine partitions are (in order) FAT, Extended, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext2, Linux Swap, NTFS (I guess this is for NT), and FAT. The last one is free to use, I use PartitionMagic to format it and set it to be FAT. It seems to me that partition and extended partion are different. If I run fdisk, there are only two items: C: 1 PRI-DOS 31M 2 EXT-DOS 6119M So, linux and NT must be put into the EXT-DOS part. If this is bad arragement, can you tell me how to do this from scratch? I still want to put Linux and NT on that machine as well. Thanks a lot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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