From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 18:22:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B235B16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F83E43D2F for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3AAC63AB2 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:22:50 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: VL48y0i+GtrUQ3lVqARjvw 1111602165 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-75-117.access.as9105.com [80.41.75.117]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9498570159 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:22:44 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050323003314.GA9348@thought.org> <4240D81E.6060709@ec.rr.com> <20050323064422.GA11110@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050323064422.GA11110@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503231822.44143.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:51 -0000 On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:44, Gary Kline wrote: > The first CD boots 5.3 ad brings up /stand/sysinstall. > Every options I have tries sees the "NTFS" as ad0s1. > > Is there another choice to chose to divvy up the drive > to give me more than three slices? This is where the > handbook gets muddy. > > Can anybody 'splain this better?? FreeBSD is not Linux. Linux uses the same partitioning as Windows, 4 primary partitions, or 3 primaries and an extended partition. FreeBSD has its own type of partitioning scheme which you could put directly onto the disk, but this is known as "dangerously-dedicated mode" since it isn't compatible with other non-bsd OSs and might cause problems with some BIOSes. Most people will install FreeBSD in what's known as a slice, this wraps a group of native BSD partitions inside a normal PC primary partition. You only need one slice for a FreeBSD installation. > Which sections should I print out and go in a corner to read? The one called "Installing FreeBSD"