Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:36:01 -0500 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org>, <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Win2k w/ NTFS -- want to add FBSD Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010818113601.0113d060@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <EIEJJDNOODKOCHBBKBIJGEFHCHAA.luomat@peak.org> References: <3B7E30C2.47AF39B@urx.com>
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Timothy: When doing the DOS (or Win2K) Fdisk, don't make an extended partition for the one you want to be FreeDBS as it will then not see it as "free".... leave that part of the HD blank and the Fdisk will see it as available... At 12:01 PM 8.18.2001 -0400, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > >Well I'm ready to go ahead and install FreeBSD 4.3. > >I deleted the old Win2k partitions and made 2 new partitions through Win2k. > >Win2k reports there are 3 partitions: > >C: Primary 9.77gb NTFS >D: Logical 9.08gb NTFS >[ ]Logical 9.09gb FAT32 > >[ ] just indicates there is no drive letter associated with that section > > >I booted off the FreeBSD CD (dang cool, BTW, to be able to d/l the ISO and >burn my own FreeBSD CD!) > >When I get to the first stage of configuration (the "DOS fdisk screen" in >FreeBSD) > >Offset / Size / End / Name / PType / Desc / subtype / fclass >0 / 63 / 62 / - / 6 / unused / 0 / >63 / 20487537 / 20487599 / ad0s1 / 1 / ntfs / 7 / >20487600 / 38117520 / 58605119 / ad0s2 / 4 / extended / 15 > >At which point I paniced and c-a-d my way back to Win2k to ask you nice >folks for help. > >Question #1 > - Something tells me those are supposed to be 'extended partitions' not >'logical drives', eh? I don't think Win2K gave me the option of doing that. >If they are, what's the best way of doing that? > > >Question #2: > - I assume that ad0s1 is my C: under Win2k and that ad0s2 is the rest of >the space. Is that correct? > - Can FreeBSD's setup program make "real" partitions out of that space? >How can I, in FreeBSD, allocate 1/2 of that space to FreeBSD and leave the >other 1/2 for Win2k? > > >Question #3: > - FreeBSD install, before the screen above, wants to so some sort of >hardware configuration. I have no idea what to do there, so I just >basically skipped it, which may not be correct. If there is something wrong >there, can I fix it later? (Again my hardware is a Dell Inspiron laptop >7500 which I've read several folks said was an "easy" install, but given >their knowledge vs mine, I'm not sure what "easy" means ;-) > > > Thanks to all > TjL > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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