Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:57:43 -0400 From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using an extended partition for freebsd Message-ID: <F9Vs1tIzmQVuRWCy7rj000003a5@hotmail.com>
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Hi everyone:
I am installing 4.7-REL on a PC with one PRIMARY and one EXTENDED partition.
The PRIMARY
partition is FAT and I have W98 there. I want to use the EXTENED partition
(the WHOLE partition -
there is currently nothing there) for FreeBSD but I read that FreeBSD needs
to be installed into
a PRIMARY partition.
SYSINSTALL's FDISK program has an option ("Change Type") that lets me change
the EXTENDED
partition to FreeBSD, but I don't know if it is changing the partition to
PRIMARY or just making a
cosmetic Label change. And if it is making the change, will the BIOS
recognize it (will anything
break)
Will SYSINSTALL's FDISK program do what I need it to do? If not, what tool
can I use to change
the EXTENDED partition to a PRIMARY partition?
FYI, SYSINSTALL's FDISK screen is:
Disk Name: ad0
Disk geometry: 4865 cyls/ 255 heads / 63 sectors = 78156225 (38162MB)
Offset Size End Name PType
Desc. Subtype Flags
0 63 62 -
6 unused 0
63 12594897 12594959 ad0s1 2
fat 11
12594960 65561265 78156224 ad0s2 4
extended 15
78156225 9135 78165359 - 6
unused 0
Thanks in advance,
John
(c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved.
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