Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:12:21 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.ms-agentur.de>, dmitry_makovey@mail.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <3958E075.E2068AC6@i-clue.de> References: <3958BDF3.B6C4A3E8@ids.pl> <395893C7.FA2CFDD4@i-clue.de> <3958CF71.6D65C703@3-cities.com>
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Kent Stewart wrote: > > Christoph Sold wrote: > > > > Dmitry Makovey wrote: > > > > > > Can I install FreeBSD on logical disk in extended partition? > > No. You need one DOS partition table entry, that is (in DOS parlance) > > partition 1-4. This translates to FreeBSD slice 0-3. > > > > > I have Linux & Win95 installed, and wanna try FreeBSD (as an > > > alternative OS for Linux) > > > So I have (in Linux terms): > > > /dev/hda1 - windows > > > /dev/hda2 - ext. partition > > > > /dev/hda3 seems to be available. Swap and all the other stuff will be > > maintained inside the DOS partition 3. Unfortunately, some > > repartitioning will be needed: FreeBSD wants its root partition to fit > > completely into the very first GB of your boot disk. > > Your last statement is not true when you use 4.0, if you have LBA > turned on. It still has to be in cylinders 0-1023 but hat works out to > less than 8.4GB (1024x255x63x512). I have two system with slices > larger than 10GB that share the main drive with Win98/NT4/W2K/FreeBSD > and on one of them the 100MB / partition is loaded above 5.GB. The > 13GB FreeBSD slice comes after a 2GB Fat, and 3GB extended partition. I stand corrected. OTOH, many BIOSes still limit your boot partition to the first GB of the boot disk. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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