Sorry, I've gotten the message now . . . (my mail takes too long to send . . .) the partitions do work just the install doesn't.
This seems like an especially silly situation to me . . . I always thought that the filesystem was the limitation here . . . On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:34 am, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: | On Monday 18 March 2002 10:49 pm, David O'Brien wrote: | | On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:44:07PM -0500, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote: | | > What good will it do you if do boot it? FreeBSD doesn't support UFS in | | > extended partitions anyway. | | | | Yes it does. Why do you say it doesn't? | | Because that's what I've always been told. | Because when I try to install it in a secondary partition refuses to | install there. | Because all my friends who have been using FreeBSD for years say so. | Because the FreeBSD handbook says, in so many words: | | FreeBSD must be installed in to a primary partition. FreeBSD can keep all | its data, including any files that you create, on this one partition. | However, if you have multiple disks then you can create a FreeBSD partition | on all, or some, of them. When you install FreeBSD you must have one | partition available. This might be a blank partition that you have | prepared, or it might be an existing partition that contains data that you | no longer care about. | | If you are already using all the partitions on all your disks then you will | have to free one of them for FreeBSD to use, using the tools provided by | the other operating systems you use (e.g., fdisk on DOS or Windows). | | What makes *you* think otherwise? -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message