Re: Installing in a logical partition
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:44:57 +0200 h p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows XP > and Gentoo Linux). > > I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows > four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is correctly > recognized as a DOS extended partition, but the logical partitions > inside it are not displayed - so I can't select the slice I have set > aside for FreeBSD. > > Is this possible? I don't find that limitation in the handbook, and it > seems utterly anachronistic to me. What can I do to get around this? Josh is right; you can't install to or boot from a 'logical partition', it needs to be one of the 4 primary slices. That said, FreeBSD can access each 'logical drive' in the 'extended partition' (FAT16/32, NTFS and HPFS (r/o), probably ext2fs, and of course UFS), here as ad4s5, ad4s6 .. Are all three of ad4s1 to ad4s3 now in use for XP and Gentoo? Do you have other 'logical drives' already in ad4s4 that can't go elsewhere? Could you maybe install Gentoo in the 'extended partition', freeing up its primary slice for FreeBSD? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Installing in a logical partition
On Friday 13 July 2007, h p wrote: > Hi. > > I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows > XP and Gentoo Linux). > > I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows > four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is correctly > recognized as a DOS extended partition, but the logical partitions > inside it are not displayed - so I can't select the slice I have > set aside for FreeBSD. > > Is this possible? I don't find that limitation in the handbook, and > it seems utterly anachronistic to me. What can I do to get around > this? > > Thanks, > > Helge > Logical partitions are a horrible hack that should die a horrible death. FreeBSD doesn't support installing/booting from them. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel pgpZ9G4vjqUrH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Installing in a logical partition
Hi. I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows XP and Gentoo Linux). I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is correctly recognized as a DOS extended partition, but the logical partitions inside it are not displayed - so I can't select the slice I have set aside for FreeBSD. Is this possible? I don't find that limitation in the handbook, and it seems utterly anachronistic to me. What can I do to get around this? Thanks, Helge ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
