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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:07:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Spence <jspence@tierzero.apana.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD within an MSDOS extended partition.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961203120541.4229G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32a4a746.4299246@sa.apana.org.au>

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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, John Spence wrote:

> 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.

FreeBSD requires totally unallocated space.  It creates its own slice and
it's filesystem is not compatible with FAT.  Thus, you'll have to shrink
your extended partition so that the final 320mb of undefined space in
the extended partition is totally unallocated.

> 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

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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