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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help partitioning w/ 2.1.7 Date: 18 Mar 1997 09:07:27 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.1-R), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 28 Message-ID: <slrn5ismqf.9sl.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <19970316164301.LAA17816@ladder01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37396 jwbot@aol.com (Jwbot): > I have a 1 gig drive. I want to do the following > Partition > 1 win95, 500 MB > 2 / for Freebsd > 3 /swap for Freebsd > 4 extended /usr for Freebsd > extended /etc for Freebsd Is there any reason not to go the direct way ? You can assign a primary partition to FreeBSD and have it use the partition as DOS uses an extended partition. (This whole thing about primary partitions and extended partitions etc. sucks big time, anyway). Your drive would look like this: Partition 1 w95, 500MB 2 FreeBSD, divided into /, swap, /usr, ... Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)