*BSD News Article 74519


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hawaii.engineous.com!hawaii.engineous.com!not-for-mail
From: boehm@hawaii.engineous.com (Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How do I install 2.1.5 to an extended partition
Date: 23 Jul 1996 13:01:40 -0400
Organization: Engineous Software, Inc.
Lines: 41
Message-ID: <4t30hk$98q@eng15.engineous.com>
Reply-To: boehm@engineous.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: eng15.engineous.com
Summary: Is this possible?
Keywords: extended partitions install slice 2.1.5
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1

I have search the FAQ's, past USENET postings and the freebsd mailing list
archives. I am still unable to come up with a definitive answer or the
procedure (if possible) for install FreeBSD 2.1.5 to a logical drive in an
extended partition.

Posts from Bruce Evans indicate that 2.1.5 will mount dos drives in a logical
partition.

However, when I go in to the installation procedure (Novice) to set up the
partitions, it does not see the logical drives in the extended partition. I
also tried the Custom option, but that didn't help.

I have two drives, one IDE and one SCSI that are partitioned as follows:

DISK 1 (IDE)
1. OS/2 Boot Manager
2. DOS (Primary)
3. Extended
   a. Linux
   b. Linux swap
   c. BSD/386 (a5 is the partition ID)

DISK 2 (SCSI)
1. DOS (Primary)
2. Extended 
   a. DOS
   b. DOS
   c. HPFS 
   d. HPFS

I can use OS/2 Boot Manager to boot from DOS, Linux or OS/2. I have space on
DISK 1, 3c or DISK 2, 2a to put FreeBSD. 

However, I can't figure out how to get past the Create Partition part of the
installation procedure.

I would appreciate any assistance. If this isn't possible, I would also
appreciate hearing that too. Depending on the outcome, I think this would be a
useful addition to the FAQ.
-- 
Eric