Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:40:05 +0100 From: Mark Hannon <mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use extended partition for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <36E2C800.72EEFFEC@stockholm.mail.telia.com>
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Hi, I solved this in another way! I downloaded a dos based shareware partition editor, removed wd0s6, shrunk the extended partition and thus made room to create a new primary partition in place of wd0s6. Once that was done I was up and away and /stand/sysinstall worked fine /mark > > > Mark Hannon wrote: > > > > Hi, > > But my problem is that it is wd0s6, ie a 'logical' drive within the DOS > > extended partition that I have available and logical drives do not appear > > in fdisk! When I fire up /stand/sysinstall I see this: > > > > Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor > > > > DISK Geometry: 523 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8401995 sectors > > > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > > > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > > 63 2056257 2056319 wd0s1 2 fat 11 > > 2056320 5510295 7566614 wd0s2 4 extended 5 > > 7566615 835380 8401994 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C > > 8401995 2835 8404829 - 6 unused 0 > > > > It is not possible to look inside the extended partition! > > > > Regards/Mark > > > > "Mark S. Reichman" wrote: > > > > > I just did this... About 2 weeks ago actually. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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