Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 15:12:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ecclesiastes <ecclesiastes@planetfortress.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Adapting. Message-ID: <19980906151242.C25397@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <002501bdda14$84b509a0$c48011d0@sean-myers>; from Ecclesiastes on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 12:03:43AM -0400 References: <002501bdda14$84b509a0$c48011d0@sean-myers>
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On Monday, 7 September 1998 at 0:03:43 -0400, Ecclesiastes wrote: > FDisk Information from both OSes is immediately following this > paragraph. > -- > MS Fdisk: > Primary Partition: > Partition One -- 1828 Megabytes, FAT16 File System. > Extended Partition: > Partition Two -- 1828 Megabytes, FAT16 File System. > Partition Three -- 1828 Megabytes, No file system. > > (Look! Barely Useful Info!) Well, combined with what we have below, it's enough. > -- > FreeBSD FDisk > > Information Ordered as follows: > Name / Offset / Size / End / Ptype / Flags > -- / 0 / 63 / 62 / 1 / None > wd0s1 / 63 / 3743082 / 3743114 / 6 / = > wd0s2 / 3743145 / 7486290 / 11229434 / 6 / = > -- / 11229424 / 25893 / 11255327 / 1 / None > > I believe the nameless two are products of DOS. No, they're just odds and ends. Let's look: > -- / 0 / 63 / 62 / 1 / None This is the first track on the disk. Contains the partition table and bootstrap. > wd0s1 / 63 / 3743082 / 3743114 / 6 / = This is your primary DOS partition. Size 3743082 sectors of 512 bytes, or 1827.6 MB of 1048576 bytes. Agrees with Microsoft FDISK. > wd0s2 / 3743145 / 7486290 / 11229434 / 6 / = And this looks like *another* primary DOS partition. Size 7486290 sectors of 512 bytes, or 3655.3 MB of 1048576 bytes. Does *not* agree with Microsoft FDISK. > -- / 11229424 / 25893 / 11255327 / 1 / None And this is piddly 12 MB that Microsoft doesn't know what to do with. FreeBSD does, but it's not exactly enough to install in. > But when I went through it this time, I figured something out that I > hadn't noticed before. Since I went directly from MS FDisk into > FreeBSD FDisk, it was more noticeable. In the data from MS FDisk, I > included the fact that the first Partition was the "Primary" > Partition, and the other two were "Logical Drives" in the extended > partition. That's why I can't install to what I though would be the > third slice. Er...Partition. The Third Slice is actually part of > wd0s2, or the DOS Extended Partition. So, the reason I can't install > FreeBSD is because Microsoft is stupid and I need a new hard drive > :). Fortunately, Gigs come cheap nowadays. Let me know what you > think, but I think I've got the problem solved. Close. Maybe even a cigar. But partition type 6 is a Microsoft "big" primary partition. An extended partition should be type 5. I don't understand how that could happen. Theoretically, you could change the size of the extended partition, and that *might* not destroy your D: drive. On the other hand, it might destroy it. If you're planning to get a new disk anyway, that's definitely a safer way to go. > And on a Quick note...My experience with Pine has nothing to do with > Microsoft. It was just on a FreeBSD System that I got a chance to toy around > with. I also got to see various other aspects of the Operating System that > really got me hooked. Namely the fact that programs miraculously opened when > I opened them...not a couple seconds later... :-) Was this on the same system? Pine's not the worst mailer I know, but IMO there are better ones. Try mutt from the Ports Collection when you get installed. > Not as much OS Crap getting in the way. I know about crontab and > stuff...but does FreeBSD have much scripting? Sure. The original scripting machine. The standard shell includes a powerful (if arcane) scripting language. I'd strongly recommend the Bourne shell or friends (bash or ksh) over the C shell, though this could start a religious war. You can also use perl or tcl. > Like if a certain event happens, I can have it do something? Sure. There are plenty of good books on the subject. Try the book list in the web page first. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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