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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:09:28 +0200
From:      Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>
To:        "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: partitioning question
Message-ID:  <4055880051.20020612000928@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894799@exchange.Navitaire.com>
References:  <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894799@exchange.Navitaire.com>

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Hello/Beste Brian,

Thursday, June 06, 2002, 9:57:43 PM, you wrote:

HB> Hello-
HB> I am confused about partitioning my hard drive. I have one disk with the
HB> following partitions.

HB> Primary 1 - Windows 2000 Pro - NTFS : 5G
HB> Primary 2 - FreeBSD - UFS : 5G
HB> Primary 3 - Minix - MinixFS : 200M

HB> Exented:
HB> Logical 5 - Grub menu.list - EXT2FS 8M
HB> Logical 6 - Swap - Linux Swap : 192M
HB> Logical 7 - Debian - EXT2FS : 5G
HB> Logical 8 - Redhat - EXT2FS : 5G
HB> Logical 9 - BeOS - BFS : 4G
HB> Logical 10 - Free Space - Fat32 : 3.5G


HB> Is this the proper way to partitions this disk?

Yes, i got 4 primary partitions.

HB> I was told that only one primary partition should exist on a disk.
HB> I am confused with debian because it thinks it exists on
HB> /dev/hda11. I can't get it to boot with grub. Should I create a
HB> couple of extended partitions and put freebsd and minix in those 
HB> partitions?

I don't know what grub is. Are you able to boot from you logical
partitions? (to debian?; i'm not used to debian)


HB> thanks,
HB> brian

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Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
Alex


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