Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:23:55 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: feanaro@free.fr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on an extended partition Message-ID: <3A80878B.49B52F64@babbleon.org>
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Sorry, no-can-do. Major weakness of FreeBSD, no doubt about that. With this setup: |hdb1 <- These are primary partitions |hdb2 <- |hdb3 <- This is the extended one | | hdb5 | | hdb6 | | hdb7 | | hdb8 <- I want to install FreeBSD here. | | hdb9 | | hdb10 The best you can do is (provided that hbd9 and hbd10 contain ext2 or DOS partitions) is to get PartitionMagic, backup up your disk, and then delete hdb8, move hdb9 and hdb10 down to replace them, shrink the extended partition, and put FreeBSD on what you (and Linux) would call hdb4, and FreeBSD would call ad1s4. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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