Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:01:34 -0400 From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> To: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Win2k w/ NTFS -- want to add FBSD Message-ID: <EIEJJDNOODKOCHBBKBIJGEFHCHAA.luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <3B7E30C2.47AF39B@urx.com>
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Well I'm ready to go ahead and install FreeBSD 4.3. I deleted the old Win2k partitions and made 2 new partitions through Win2k. Win2k reports there are 3 partitions: C: Primary 9.77gb NTFS D: Logical 9.08gb NTFS [ ]Logical 9.09gb FAT32 [ ] just indicates there is no drive letter associated with that section I booted off the FreeBSD CD (dang cool, BTW, to be able to d/l the ISO and burn my own FreeBSD CD!) When I get to the first stage of configuration (the "DOS fdisk screen" in FreeBSD) Offset / Size / End / Name / PType / Desc / subtype / fclass 0 / 63 / 62 / - / 6 / unused / 0 / 63 / 20487537 / 20487599 / ad0s1 / 1 / ntfs / 7 / 20487600 / 38117520 / 58605119 / ad0s2 / 4 / extended / 15 At which point I paniced and c-a-d my way back to Win2k to ask you nice folks for help. Question #1 - Something tells me those are supposed to be 'extended partitions' not 'logical drives', eh? I don't think Win2K gave me the option of doing that. If they are, what's the best way of doing that? Question #2: - I assume that ad0s1 is my C: under Win2k and that ad0s2 is the rest of the space. Is that correct? - Can FreeBSD's setup program make "real" partitions out of that space? How can I, in FreeBSD, allocate 1/2 of that space to FreeBSD and leave the other 1/2 for Win2k? Question #3: - FreeBSD install, before the screen above, wants to so some sort of hardware configuration. I have no idea what to do there, so I just basically skipped it, which may not be correct. If there is something wrong there, can I fix it later? (Again my hardware is a Dell Inspiron laptop 7500 which I've read several folks said was an "easy" install, but given their knowledge vs mine, I'm not sure what "easy" means ;-) Thanks to all TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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