From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 07:02:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01297 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from bkinis1-1.morgan.com (bkinis.ms.com [204.254.196.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01292 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bkinis1-1.morgan.com (8.6.12/sendmail.cf.firewall v0.66beta) id KAA06638 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 10:01:59 -0500 Received: from unknown(144.14.62.180) by bkinis1-1.morgan.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006601; Thu Feb 1 10:01:55 1996 Received: from swanton.Morgan.COM by ns1-f0.morgan.com (4.1/MS/FID/Sun-1.3) id AA29264; Thu, 1 Feb 96 10:01:55 EST Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 10:01:55 EST Message-Id: <9602011501.AA29264@ns1-f0.morgan.com> From: aduff@morgan.com (Adam Duff) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: partitioning a large disk? Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been having problems determining how I should partition my hard drive in order to run FreeBSD, in addition to Windows NT and Linux which I am currently already running. I have a Fujitsu 4.35GB Fast/Wide SCSI drive, connected to a Buslogic 956C SCSI controller. Currently Windows NT is installed in the first primary partition, from 0 to 340MB (sda1). The Linux root partition is installed in second primary partition, from 341 to 640 MB (sda2). Finally, I attempted to install FreeBSD in the third primary partition from 641 to 1023 MB (sda3). This allows me to select partition 2 as the boot partition, and use LILO as the boot manager. All the boot partitions are below 1023 cylinders, so everything boots, and it all appears to work fine. But, I have a ton of software and data files to install under each OS (hence the 4 gig drive!), and so have created an extended partition (sda4) from 1024 to 4350 MB. And within this extended partition I've created NTFS, Linux, and Linux swap extended partitions. Also, I created a 1 GB FreeBSD extended partition (sda9). The problem is that I cannot install to, or mount this extended partition. I see a brief blurb about how FreeBSD doesn't recognise DOS extended partitions in the handbook, so apparently this is a known problem. (?) So - the question is - what do I do now? I'd like to run all three OS's, booting all three off the hard drive (preferably), with about 1GB for NT, 1.5 GB for Linux and 1.5GB for FreeBSD. How do I do this? Any assistance greatly appreciated. Regards, Adam.