From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 1:51:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B8D337B65D for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:51:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f179pB923844; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:51:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <981485387.3a80474b5b524@imp.free.fr> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:51:10 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: feanaro@free.fr Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on an extended partition Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Feb-01 feanaro@free.fr wrote: > Hi ! > I'd like to know if it is possible to install FreeBSD on one of the many > partitions I have in the Extended one of my disk. Here it is : > ( linux fdisk partition labels) > > hdb1 <- These are primary partitions > hdb2 <- > hdb3 <- This is the extended one > | hdb5 > | hdb6 > | hdb7 > | hdb8 <- I want to install FreeBSD here. > | hdb9 > | hdb10 > > Didnt find this in the doc, faq nor online documentation while installing. 'fraid you can not do that. FreeBSD (or / anyway) needs to reside on a primary partition. It can access extended ones but not boot from them. Sorry! > > Thanx ! > Julien > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message