Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 02:13:39 +1030 From: jspence@tierzero.apana.org.au (John Spence) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD within an MSDOS extended partition. Message-ID: <32a4a746.4299246@sa.apana.org.au>
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I'm planning to buy the FreeBSD 2.1.6 realease on CDROM and I'm trying
to prevent problems before they happen.
The plan is to install FreeBSD to the unused section of my MSDOS
extended partition.
Current setup created with MSDOS' FDISK is:
Primary : 600M
Extended 620M
Extended is currently divided up into
Logical D: 150M
Logical E: 150M
Last 320Meg is undefined
Which should leave approximately 320M free of my extended to create a
=46reeBSD swap of about 20M and the rest for a FreeBSD filesystem.
I have browsed the FreeBSD handbook for release 2.1.5 and found no
mention of a similar setup, which is the reason I ask here.
If anyone has a better strategy for common sense or performance
reasons, I'd like to hear about it.
I have no previous FreeBSD experience at all but I did install Linux
in the above mentioned partition recently. It (Linux) worked ok but
I want to have a look at another free Unix before I start taking
things seriously.
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