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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install 2.1.5 to an extended partition Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:51:08 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 56 Message-ID: <31F6628C.149C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4t30hk$98q@eng15.engineous.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Eric M. Boehm wrote: > > 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. Whoops! Check the difference between 'mount' and 'install.' FreeBSD must be installed into unallocated space on your hard drive. "Unused space" in a DOS partition doesn't make it; FDISK must be able to say that the space is not assigned to any operating system. Once you have installed FreeBSD, you will be able to mount DOS partitions so you can read and write files there. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |