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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!sci.kun.nl!tiberius.mbfys.kun.nl!roy From: roy@mbfys.kun.nl (Roy Glasius) Subject: FBSD2.0-disklabel and ext.dos partition? Message-ID: <D0pGzE.EDq@sci.kun.nl> Sender: news@sci.kun.nl (News owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: tiberius.mbfys.kun.nl Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 16:11:37 GMT Lines: 23 On my second harddisk I have a primary and an extended dos partition. Using fdisk in dos6.2 there seems no room to be left. FBSD however manage to find an extra 449 sectors. Is this unoccupied part mend for a possible MBR? Using sysinstall, the help-pages tells that my msdos-only disk can be visible from FBSD by making a 3th (FBSD) slice. The only way to do this is using the above mentioned 449 sectors. After using (F)disk to write a MBR on that part, I used (D)isklabel trying to make my dos partition visible. The Primary dos partition gave no problems and could be mounted on /dos/c. However the problems are with my extended dos partition. Disklabel does not recognize it as "MSDOS" but as "unused" and no mountpoint could be assigned to it. Could someone explain me how to do this properly? Thanks in advance! || Roy Glasius, Department Medical Physics and Biophysics, || University of Nijmegen,Geert Grooteplein Noord 21,6525 EZ Nijmegen, || The Netherlands,+31-80615040,roy@mbfys.kun.nl,http://www.mbfys.kun.nl ===========================================================================