On 9/4/07, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new laptop. > > It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added > Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD > next. > > When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. > Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine > booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > sda1 Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 > sda2 Boot Primary FAT16 [] 31453.48 > sda3 Primary Linux ReiserFS 39999.54 > sda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 > Logical Free Space 74109.78 > > How can I acomplish this?
The MBR has only 4 slots for partitions. If you only would use primary partitions you can have maximum 4 of these. You also can have a single extended partition, combined with 0 to 3 primary partitions. You cannot have multiple extended partitions. If you need to run Linux, it would be best to create 2 logical partitions within the extended partition for Linux. One logical for the Linux system and the other for Linxu swap. That would free up the current primary ReiserFS.partition. While Linux can boot from a logical partitions inside an extended one, the BSDs only can boot from a primary partition. So besides Linux you could install 3 other operating systems that need a primary partition. A possible complication would be a "suspend-to-RAM" partition which possible would take away one, only leaving you with only 2 primaries. I never owned a laptop, nor did I use suspend-to-RAM so I leave that issue to others ;) =Adriaan=
