From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 11:40:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4134D37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD8643E4A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:40:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9QIeMYs079961; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:40:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9QIeL6D079953; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:40:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "demon" Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD 4.4 into EXTENDED Partition References: <3DBACDE0.000002.21871@soapbox.yandex.ru> <00d801c27d15$4d22d9b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20021026174208.GA5720@scottro11.homeunix.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Oct 2002 14:40:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20021026174208.GA5720@scottro11.homeunix.net> Message-ID: <44d6pxt562.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Robbins writes: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:29:55PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > In installation programm of FreeBSD 4.4 I have select extended partition, > > > > Unless I'm mistaken, FreeBSD cannot use DOS Extended partitions for disk > > space. > > > > -- > > Matt Emmerton > > > You're not mistaken. FreeBSD requires a primary partition. Isn't that in > the faq somewhere? (Don't have time to look at this instant) Just to be clear; it *can* use "extended" partitions for disk space. It's just that the BIOS can't boot from them, and therefore the standard FreeBSD installer won't *install* into one. In theory, you can get around this, but not with the standard installer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message