From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 9:22:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBA237B404 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:22:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA13603; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:29:30 +0100 Message-ID: <3A71B27E.B600993F@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:23:10 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: TODD WITTER Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install question / partitions References: <35ACF762F3F@vilas.uwex.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG TODD WITTER schrieb: > > Hi there. > I have been wanting to install FreeBSD 4.1 on my computer but am > a little confused with the fdisk portion of the install. > Currently I have 2 windows partitions, C and D. That's one primary partition in slice 0 and a logical partition in slice 1. > When installing > linux, they are labeled as /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5. When > installing FBSD, I don't see my D partition listed, nor my current > linux partitions. > I would eventually like to have a triple boot system with windows > still on C and D, Free BSD and Linux (debian). > A) Is this possible? Yes. > B) Why does it look like FreeBSD's fdisk doesn't recognize the > linux partitions? Because they are probably installed as externded partition in slice 1. > C) If I'm willing to lose my current linux install, what is the best > course of action to take? (I'm also a bit concerned with losing that > D partition in windows as I mentioned above.) Backup. Install from start. Everything else should only done if experienced enough. If experiencved enough, you would backup first... HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message