Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:48:13 +0100 From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org> To: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net>, "70uf33q Hu5541n" <topa_007@yahoo.com> Cc: Avinash Piare <avinash@piare.org> Subject: RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms Message-ID: <20040111204714.CE9F52B4D47@redqueen.elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20040111130736.6962338F@mail.elvandar.org>
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Sorry to interupt, but i think that person x, since he has a weird name ;-) , means that the partitioning device of freebsd cannot access the extended partition at all. I had this with a friend of mine, and we could not access the devices anymore since it was packed inside another partition (we migrated from linux to freebsd) We needed to use a bit of software that could re-enable our partition. Perhaps Avinash can reply with the software name/ Also it is possible that your partition is held inside another one, how to resolve? No idea, i always started with a clean hdd, or a new one when the current on needed to be saved. Hope it helped a little. Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: freebsd-hackers-bounces@lists.elvandar.org [mailto:freebsd-hackers-bounces@lists.elvandar.org]Namens Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] Verzonden: zondag 11 januari 2004 14:07 Aan: 70uf33q Hu5541n CC: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Onderwerp: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:29, 70uf33q Hu5541n wrote: > hey guys, > > Just got my copy of FreeBSD 5.1. > Spent about an hour going through the BSD Handbook and > preparing a Installation checklist. > > ok here's my problem. > > I have a WD 40 GB HDD > the primary partition is 10 GB, with the extended > partition 28 GB.(the rest 2 GB is in WD's bank). > > OK , the extended partition has 3 logical drives. > To create a slice for BSD, I resized one of the > logical drives to free up some space. About 1.2 > GB,cause that's all I can spare. > > When I run the installation through CDROM, and the > point where I'm to creat the Freebsd slice,the new > partition is not displayed in the "FDISK" utility. > > All I get is the primary (10GB) and the whole Extended > (28 GB). > The freespace I guess is "locked into" the Extended > Partiton. Not sure though. Indeed you first have to resize the extended partition before you can use the space to create slices. The "fdisk" program that comes with Windows has no way to do this (except deleting all logicle drives in the extended partition and re-creating them). Have a look at the program "Partition Magic". It can resize partitions and it has a nice user interface. grtz, Daan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ Freebsd-hackers mailing list Freebsd-hackers@lists.elvandar.org http://lists.elvandar.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
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