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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!mbreed From: mbreed@cs.tamu.edu (Michael B. Reed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help needed with partitioning Date: 18 Oct 1995 01:29:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M Department of Computer Engineering, College Station, TX Lines: 36 Message-ID: <461l90$efg@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc86.cs.tamu.edu Okay, I've got two hard drives now. I had DOS and OS/2 living on the old one, and I've moved things around to look like the following: Disk 1 OS/2 Boot Manager (Primary) DOS (Primary) OS/2 (Primary) DOS stuff (Logical drive D:) Free space (I'd like to put FreeBSD here) Disk 2 OS/2 stuff (Logical drive E:) Free space (intended for FreeBSD swap) Here's the problem. When I tried to install FreeBSD, it didn't like being put in that free space at the end of drive 1. The name in the partition editor was 'X' instead of 'wd0s1' or some such. So, I'm inferring that it wants to be in the first four partitions, or maybe in a primary partition. I can't move DOS or OS/2's boot partitions off of disk 1. Now, if FreeBSD really really wants to be in a primary partition, I've got a problem, since you can only have 4 primary or 3 primary/1 extended partition on a drive, and I don't want to have to move the 'DOS stuff' partition off of disk 1. So here's my list of questions. First, does FreeBSD really need to be on a primary partition, or can I get away with swapping the free space and the 'DOS stuff' partition around in the hopes that it will name the FreeBSD partition properly? Next, what about FreeBSD's boot manager? Does it need to be installed in its own primary partition, and will it work in place of OS/2's Boot Manager? Any suggestions on how I could go about setting this up would be greatly appreciated. -- -Brad Reed mbreed@tamu.edu