From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 20:43:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 20:43:37 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odo.cc.flinders.edu.au (odo.cc.flinders.edu.au [129.96.252.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD8037B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (IDENT:bra@[129.96.134.128]) by odo.cc.flinders.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA10655; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:13:26 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill To: "John Duffy" , Subject: Re: Installation Problem Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:05:04 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000201c05d53$e3c4fb20$a4c92cc3@desktop> In-Reply-To: <000201c05d53$e3c4fb20$a4c92cc3@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00120415111402.01470@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 04 Dec 2000, John Duffy wrote: > The disk is partitioned as so: > > P1 4GB FreeBSD > P2 3GB NTFS (Windows 2000) > P3 1GB FAT > P4 Extended Partition > L5 3GB Linux ext2 > L6 1GB Linux ext2 > L7 3GB Linux ext2 > L8 1GB Linux ext2 > L9 441M Linux Swap There IS a fix. Make a small DOS (Fat16) partition at the beginning of the drive, and use Boot Manager to boot to your required system from there. As you are already on the limit of 4 partitions, to adopt this fix you would have to delete one of the existing ones - perhaps you could manage without P3? That 4-partition (ONE of which can be extended) limitation is a PAIN. It is the reason I use 2 8M drives rather than 1 16M drive. -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message