Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount Message-ID: <20050323185959.GA15303@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200503231822.44143.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <20050323003314.GA9348@thought.org> <4240D81E.6060709@ec.rr.com> <20050323064422.GA11110@thought.org> <200503231822.44143.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +0000, RW wrote: > 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" If memory servers, the slices I created were ad0s2 / ad0s3 SWAP ad0s4 /usr I tagged ad0s2 to be bootable; selected everything to be installed and okay the create script. /usr had trouble with newfs because of a bad superblock in 0s4. My guess is that the difficulty stems from a foul-up from the disk labeling. I've been installing BSD since 4.1 at Cal and FreeBSD since 2.0.5; I'm familiar with the standard protocols. This is my first go at trying to dual-boot such different systems. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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