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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Choosing partition? Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:09:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5ffem0$6d6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc27a5$420bfbe0$6548cbd0@bigbrother> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36503 "BigBrother" <bigbro@intercomm.com> wrote: > I am having a problem understanding the way FreeBSD defines > partitions...This is what partitions I have in FAT: > > Primary = C: 350MB (Holding DOS and FreeBSD archives) > Extended = 3 logical drives > D: 350MB (Partition for FreeBSD when installed) > E: 315MB (Holding Windows95) > F: 40MB (Storage) > > I was wondering what does the "Fdisk" program in FreeBSD see, so I can > properly format and intall FreeBSD. What partition should I choose in > FreeBSD. First a note: FreeBSD has partitions of its own (see them as subpartitions of the fdisk partitions, although fdisk partitions are not needed at all in BSD), thus it calls the fdisk stuff ``slices''. Now, while FreeBSD could see an ``extended fdisk part^H^H^H^Hslice'', it cannot be installed there. No big deal, your primary fdisk table by now uses only two out of four entries: your C: DOS drive, and the pointer to the extension table. Thus, there are still another two of them available, so pick one and install FreeBSD there. (Since it comes with partitions of its own inside the fdisk slice, it doesn't need more than one entry there.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)