Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 10:50:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kostia Sampsa EXT/ICL <kostia@NTCARE01ES.ntc.nokia.com>, "'smtp:questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD into a 9G HD's last p Message-ID: <19980711105050.A23241@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1998Jul10.100434.1935.1647245@ntcit-mmta18.ntc.nokia.com>; from Kostia Sampsa EXT/ICL on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 10:16:45AM %2B0300 References: <1998Jul10.100434.1935.1647245@ntcit-mmta18.ntc.nokia.com>
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On Friday, 10 July 1998 at 10:16:45 +0300, Kostia Sampsa EXT/ICL wrote: > I'm having a small problem with my installation of FreeBSD. > I have a 9G HD, with C,D,E,F,G partitions, C primary, others are logical > drives in the extended > partition. DOS sucks I know. BUT the problem is, I want to install FreeBSD > to the last partition, G, > but the install program wont let me. I shows The wd0s0 first 2.1G partition > which is the primary, > and the extended partition 2.1G wd0s1 which is the extended partition, and > shows a '>' mark in the > end that it doesn't stop on 1024 bytes or sumthing. What must I do to be > able to unpack the > freebsd into the last logical drive. Yes, that's what your message looked like. I'm sure that wasn't your intention--see http://www.lemis.com/email.html for reasons. Let's try to fix it... > I'm having a small problem with my installation of FreeBSD. I have > a 9G HD, with C,D,E,F,G partitions, C primary, others are logical > drives in the extended partition. DOS sucks I know. BUT the problem > is, I want to install FreeBSD to the last partition, G, but the > install program wont let me. I shows The wd0s0 first 2.1G partition > which is the primary, and the extended partition 2.1G wd0s1 which is > the extended partition, and shows a '>' mark in the end that it > doesn't stop on 1024 bytes or sumthing. What must I do to be able to > unpack the freebsd into the last logical drive. You can't install FreeBSD in an extended partition. You'll have to truncate the partition in which it is located and create a new one later. I don't know if Microsoft will get upset if you delete the G partition and change the boundaries of the second "real" partition, but if you do, you will then be able to make a third partition for FreeBSD--*if* your BIOS will boot from there. There's a good chance that it will be limited to the first 8 GB or less (down to as low as 504 MB). Greg -- See complete headers for address 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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