On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:04:10AM +0200, Adriaan wrote: > On 9/4/07, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a new laptop. > > > > It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added > > Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD > > next. > > > > When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. > > Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine > > booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. > > > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > sda1 Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 > > sda2 Boot Primary FAT16 [] 31453.48 > > sda3 Primary Linux ReiserFS 39999.54 > > sda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 > > Logical Free Space 74109.78 > > > > How can I acomplish this? > > The MBR has only 4 slots for partitions. If you only would use primary > partitions you can have maximum 4 of these. > You also can have a single extended partition, combined with 0 to 3 > primary partitions. You cannot have multiple extended partitions. > > If you need to run Linux, it would be best to create 2 logical > partitions within the extended partition for Linux. One logical for > the Linux system and the other for Linxu swap. That would free up the > current primary ReiserFS.partition. > > While Linux can boot from a logical partitions inside an extended one, > the BSDs only can boot from a primary partition. So besides Linux you > could install 3 other operating systems that need a primary partition. > > A possible complication would be a "suspend-to-RAM" partition which > possible would take away one, only leaving you with only 2 primaries. > > I never owned a laptop, nor did I use suspend-to-RAM so I leave that > issue to others ;)
So, I need to move the Linux partion (using gpartd), reset the boot loader, and then I can put the 2 BSD's in the remaining 2 primary partions? I don't need the suspend to disk functionality anyway. -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service."
