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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.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!news.gte.com!news-in.tiac.net!posterchild!ljz From: ljz@asfast.com (Lloyd Zusman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing from my D: drive? Date: 21 Mar 1997 03:18:28 GMT Organization: As Fast Lines: 29 Message-ID: <slrn5j3vfo.6i2.ljz@sunspot.tiac.net> References: <slrn5it6bh.aoj.ljz@sunspot.tiac.net> <Pine.BSI.3.95.970320102133.5334A-100000@gold.interlog.com> <5gruos$l71@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: ljz@asfast.com (Lloyd Zusman) NNTP-Posting-Host: sunspot.tiac.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37547 On 20 Mar 1997 18:13:48 GMT, Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> wrote: > [Posted and mailed] > > In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970320102133.5334A-100000@gold.interlog.com>, > Ean Kingston <ean@gold.interlog.com> writes: > > 1) (from the compatibility help files) FreeBSD (2.1 anyway) doesn't > > support DOS EXTENDED PARTITIONS. If people have 2 dos partitions on the > > same physical drive the second one is almost always an extended partitions > > because dos could not handle more then 1 primary partition untill dos 3.3. > > After that microsoft was just too lazy to fix the code in fdisk to create > > multiple dos partitions. So unless you did something really odd when you > > setup dos you can't install from your D: because FreeBSD can't recognize > > this. I am not sure if the nice folks who bring us FreeBSD have added > > support for extended partitions since version 2.1. > > Extended partitions are supported - I forget when it was added. To mount > the first logical drive in the extended partition on IDE disk 0, use wd0s5. How do I tell the FreeBSD installer to use wd0s5? By the way, I have a SCSI controller (adaptec aha2940) and D: is a partition on my boot drive. Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman 01234567 <-- The world famous Indent-o-Meter. ljz@asfast.com ^ Indent or be indented.