Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:37:52 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> Cc: mike@hyperreal.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 install on extended partition? Message-ID: <199906140137.UAA29286@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:25:30 BST." <19990613202530.B261@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens writes: > It [DOS fdisk] will allow you to have upto 4 partitions, either 4 > primary or 3 primary and one extended. What it won't allow is to > create a primary *after* an extended (this is probably what you're > seeing). Based on what DOS has done for (or is it "to"?) me, the DOS 5.0 FDISK.EXE does as you say, but in DOS 6.2 it wouldn't let me create more than one primary. DOS 5.0 would let me create 4 primaries, but if I wanted 5 partitions then the 4th had to be primary partition dedicated to being split up into extended partitions. But as Mark said, leave the tail end of the disk unpartitioned with no extended partitions on the disk. Then FreeBSD will happily claim some or all of the unused space and mark it as a primary partition. Then if you left any space beyond that you can make an extended partition out of it with DOS. While DOS 6.2 wouldn't let me create more than one primary partition it was happy to work with a disk that already had them. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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