Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:22:53 +0000 From: John Murphy <john@t-f-i.freeserve.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org, mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: Slices named X in FDISK Message-ID: <qJq%2BOLXU1HoH=CSxQqcC16xPck=E@4ax.com>
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:07:27 +0000, Mark Ovens = <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote: >On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:56:26AM +0000, John Murphy wrote: >> Can't seem to find the answer to this: HELLLP! >>=20 >> Trying to install both FreeBSD 3.2 and win95 on the same Seagate HD >> model ST38410A 8.4G >>=20 <snip> >> FDISK Partition editor shows this: (after I create the slices I want) >> Disk name: wd0 >> Disk Geometry: 1048 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors =3D 16836120 sectors[1] >>=20 >> Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags >> 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 >> 63 931707 931769 wd0s1 2 fat 6 =3D >> 931770 64260 996029 wd0s2 3 freebsd 165 C=3D >> 996030 16065 1012094 wd0s3 1 OS/2 bootmgr 10 =3D >> 1012095 10281600 11293694 wd0s4 4 extended 5 =3D >> 11293695 5542425 16836119 X 3 freebsd 165 =3D> >> 16836120 5544 16841663 - 6 unused 0 > >>=20 >>=20 >> How can I use the "X" slice as (say) wd0s5? >>=20 > >Your 'X' partition, which *must* be a primary to use for FreeBSD comes >after the extended partition. This is not allowed. All primary >partitions must come before the extended partition. > >HTH Hi Mark Thanks for your reply; unfortunately it didn't help. It was easy to rearrange the partitions so that the extended partition was after the =46reeBSD slice using PQMagic, but FDISK merely named the extended partition wd0s4 and named the area _before_ it "X"! My most recent attempt was to have nothing but unused space above wd0s3. I then used FDISK to create a 5542425 sector slice named wd0s4 and the rest of the install went well. I can now boot either OS as planned. However: Neither PQMagic or DOS FDISK can create an extended partition in the 5GByte of free space. Surely there must be a way to do this. If FreeBSD is limited to 4 slices per drive then I need to be able to make it ignore slices it doesn't need to know about. Or something...=20 John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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