Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 20:31:22 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: FlamezOn <whitehead_9874878@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Question Message-ID: <20001001.20312200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20001001175729.9351.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/1/00, 6:57:29 PM, FlamezOn <whitehead_9874878@yahoo.com> wrote regarding Installation Question: <snip> > I gotta another problem.I have DOS/Extend Partitions > :D:\Win98 E:\Wnntsrv F:\WnntWorkstation G:\FreeBSD and > I wanted to know,If I could install the FreeBSD > last(keeping in mind that 1024cylinder limitation) and > if so, will It see my NTFS partitions DURING IT'S > INSTALLATION and how will I know where to sit my > FreeBSD slice if it does you the same naming > convention as DOS. Dear "FlamezOn", I am not quite sure that FreeBSD can be installed **within** an extended partition -- at least, I have never tried such an operation (whether legal/possible/sensible or not). AFAIK, FreeBSD is installed in one **primary** partition, which is called "slice" (in Unix parlance); the slice may be further subdivided into pieces that are called "partitions". In a way, this recalls the DOS extended partition scheme, but it is more flexible: each slice can have up to 8 subdivisions, ie up to 6 different filesystems + swap + a reference to the entire slice... By the way, you can access NTFS partitions (in DOS parlance) once you have installed your system, as well as Linux partitions (ext2fs). > I know where my dos partition is for it but I'm not > sure if I have the correct specification for FreeBSD's > specification for its extended G: I mounted on the > unused area under what I thought the g: drive to be > /dev/wd0s7 I am not sure that I have fully understood your last sentence. An extended (DOS) partition, or rather, its components (logical partitions), are label(l)ed "adNsM", N being the number of the hard disk (eg 0,1,2 ...), and M being the number of the "subpartition" (or logical partition) within the extended partition, M >=3D5. If you correctly give the name of the "subpartition" you wish to access (eg /dev/ad0s7) to the appropriate mount command (eg mount_ext2fs), you can access the data in an extended partition. I hope this doesn't sound too much confusing :-) Incidentally, I have installed a good number of OSes (DOS/Windoze9x/NT, BeOS, Linuces, *BSD), and I can grant you that installing FreeBSD is easy; you only need to pay a little attention to what you do. More info at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html, and/or in Greg Lehey's book (The Complete FreeBSD 3rd ed). HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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