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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news.pacbell.net!not-for-mail From: "David Bloodgood" <dabldgd@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation trouble Date: 27 May 1997 12:52:11 GMT Organization: A customer of Pacific Bell Internet Services Lines: 48 Message-ID: <01bc6a9c$be6ba7a0$3341aace@kd6pro> References: <EAu5Kz.HvK@racoon.riga.lv> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-206-170-65-51.grdn01.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41696 Fair pay <fairpay@stoat.riga.lv> wrote in article <EAu5Kz.HvK@racoon.riga.lv>... > Hello, > > > So for me it seems like FreeBSD fdisk sees all the extended partitions as one > big partition. > Thats exactly how it works - the main partition block on the hard disk has room for exactly 4 entries. Extended DOS partitions are all contained in one entry in the main partition block. You will have to use dos fdisk or something like it to delete your drive "H" and then reduce the size of the extended dos partition - to leave free space on the disk This can probably be done carefully - so you won't lose any data - so be carefull. Once you have reduced the size of the extended dos partition, then you will be able to install FREEBSD in that empty space. > The approach when free space is left on the disk, and then the partition is > created with FreeBSD fdisk does not work for me, as in this case primary > partition is created. But FreeBSD boots fine in the case. > > What do I miss ? What may be done ? Is it possible to create extended partition > with FreeBSD fdisk ? > NOPE > Another thing. There is SCSI Iomega ZIP disk. It's visiable under both OS/2 > fdisk and NT's Disk Administrator, but FreeBSD installation does not show it. > Is there a way to install FreeBSD on SCSI ZIP disk ? > Don't know > Thanks in advance. Dmitry > dima@irs.riga.lv > Dave