Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:05:49 +0200 From: Juergen Leising <a0037@stud.uni-bayreuth.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitions Message-ID: <19990616140549.A2713@jl2.hnet.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990616110645.4929A-100000@solair1.inter.NL.net>; from Roger Jansen on Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:14:15AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990616110645.4929A-100000@solair1.inter.NL.net>
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On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:14:15AM +0200, Roger Jansen wrote: > Hya, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my server. I've got the Walnut Creek > CD-ROM of FBSD 3.0 and went into the installation process. Everything is > rather straight forward, though be it time consuming, to install, except > for one thing. > > I've got some problems with setting up the partitions for use with FBSD. > > Situation: On the server is currently RedHat 5.2 running. For RedHat I've > setup a number of partitions on HD 1 and a number of partions on HD 2. > The sizes and location of those partitions are the way I would like them > and therefore I would like to keep them. FBSD however doesn't agree -- > obviously -- with the linux type partitions. > > I've tried to create new slices, but the partition proggie of the FBSD > installation constantly tells me that the HD is full. (Probably because of > the fact that it doesn't recognises the linux partitions). > > So I'm stuck with two questions: > > 1) Is there a possiblility to keep my current partitions, but change their > type to FBSD? If so, how can I do that? > Hi, yes, there is: If you have an EMPTY linux native partition (ext2), that you would like to dedicate completely to FreeBSD, then you can go under your running redhat 5.2 into fdisk /dev/hda (for example for the first hard disk) Type p to have a look at the partition table and then t to change the type of one partition. You have the opportunity to look up a list of partition types by pressing l and then you will assign the number of BSD/386 to the partition you want to change its type. A reboot is going to be necessary. One single partition (in linux words speaking) is enough: You can put a whole FreeBSD onto this partition. This partition is called a "slice" in FreeBSD words speaking - and this "slice" is to be divided up into smaller parts, that FreeBSD calls a "partition". If you have an empty partition for bsd only on your second controller there are going to be some boot problems (cf. the thread about booting NT and FreeBSD). If you do not have any empty partition, I do not know of a workaround like umsdos in linux. Perhaps other people do. By the way: FreeBSD slices can be mounted under linux if you have ufs support compiled into your kernel... Bye, Juergen. -- ***************************************************************** * Juergen Leising, E-Mail: juergen.leising@stud.uni-bayreuth.de * * http://www.stud.uni-bayreuth.de/~a0037/ * ***************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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