Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:18:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Shawn Leas <poker2@northernnet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Guys <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Extended partition on primary slave Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002151650.25867A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.16.19971002154301.0b871efe@206.24.45.1>
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Shawn Leas wrote: > I dunno, but a friend said he can't use an extended partition on > his primary slave. He said it has vfat on it, so I told him to > use vmount and told him what it was/how it worked. > > BUT, I wanted to know if there were any concerns, because he says > he can't "see" the partition. Can you point me to docs explaining > FreeBSD's handling of extended partition naming etc... It would > help me in understanding what he is having dificulty with. the extended partitions are mapped to slice numbers over 4, so the first extended partition would be on wd0s5, next on wd0s6, etc.. > BTW, this is a pretty awesome site, 200MHz PPro, 128 Megs RAM, > probably close to twelve gigs of HD. Knowing this guy there's > probably a couple Bigfoots in there. Yuck, I've heard bad things about the Quantum Bigfoots. > He also says there's a problem with his PS2 mouse. Any of those > things incompatible? You have to enable the device, it's not on by default as it can cause problems with some hardware. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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