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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partition hell Date: 23 Jun 1996 16:15:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4qjqjr$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C83D73.2360@cpmt2.cyberport.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Aaron Shoal <jshoal@cpmt2.cyberport.net> wrote: > Is there any way I can use the 500 free megs on my new (1 gig) hard > drive to set up freebsd, without deleting the extended dos partition > already set up to run win95? Yes, as long as you've got at least ~ 20 MB available for the root file system below what your BIOS thinks is cylinder 1024. Apart from this, FreeBSD doesn't use the so-called extended partition for itself, but allocates one of the primary fdisk slots instead. There are four of them, so if one is allocated by your primary DOS partition, and one by the pointer to the extended partition, there would be two slots remaining you could use for other operating systems. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)