[Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

70uf33q Hu5541n topa_007 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 11 14:49:59 PST 2004


hey,
ok noted.
will wait for Avinash's software.will also check out
if its possible under PartitionMagic 8 and let you
know if that works out.
great to be among this community.
bye,
Toufeeq
--- Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org> wrote:
> Excuse me, that is what i ment, (the logical drives)
> As said with Avinash, we could not access that as
> well,
> and he used to program he replied with (will be
> posted to this list
> when the admin approves :) ) to restore it's data.
> But perhaps that makes it
> also able to modify it a little to make it
> accessible by freebsd
> fdisk/disklabel (not sysinstall
> i think, since i think it calles fdisk or
> disklabel).
> 
> Anyway i am not sure this will work and does the
> job, but perhaps you can
> have a look at it,
> Though i never had your problem, as said i just
> plugged in a little extra
> harddrive (450mb was
> my first and it worked perfect :) )
> 
> and i do know the l33t language, but i prefer the
> 'normal' language :)
> 
> please to meet you toufeeq
> and success with your harddrive/freebsd and your
> test.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Remko Lodder
> Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
> www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping
> newcomers on the
> hackerscene
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: 70uf33q Hu5541n [mailto:topa_007 at yahoo.com]
> Verzonden: zondag 11 januari 2004 23:35
> Aan: Remko Lodder
> CC: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1
> Installation probelms
> 
> 
> hey Remko,
> 
> the FreeBSD sysinstall (i think) program does
> identify
> the extended partitions but not the logical drives
> contained in it.
> 
> and yes, I've not introduced myself yet. :D
> btw,
> I'm Toufeeq from Chennai,India.
> 20 yrs old doing my Engineering final year.
> 
> Been a linux user for 4 years now. FreeBSD , well I
> was interested more in the way the
> history/development
> of the OS took place and that got me hooked on and
> so
> I wanted to give it a try.
> 
> Sadly though, my hard disk is causing
> problems.Though
> that wont stop me ;)
> 
> btw, name uses wat some people call 'lewt' speak
> its just replacing alphabets with numbers, like 3 =
> e
> and a = 4.
> so 70uf33q is actually Toufeeq.
> 
> love to explain more but its 4 am and I got a test
> on
> Monday.
> 
> cheers,
> toufeeq
> --- Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org> wrote:
> > Sorry to interupt,
> >
> > but i think that person x, since he has a weird
> name
> > ;-) ,
> > means that the partitioning device of freebsd
> cannot
> > access the extended
> > partition
> > at all.
> >
> > I had this with a friend of mine, and we could not
> > access the devices
> > anymore since it was
> > packed inside another partition (we migrated from
> > linux to freebsd)
> > We needed to use a bit of software that could
> > re-enable our partition.
> > Perhaps Avinash can reply with the software name/
> >
> > Also it is possible that your partition is held
> > inside another one,
> >
> > how to resolve? No idea, i always started with a
> > clean hdd, or a new one
> > when the current on needed to be saved.
> >
> > Hope it helped a little.
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Remko Lodder
> > Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
> > www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping
> > newcomers on the
> > hackerscene
> >
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: freebsd-hackers-bounces at lists.elvandar.org
> >
>
[mailto:freebsd-hackers-bounces at lists.elvandar.org]Namens
> > Daan Vreeken
> > [PA4DAN]
> > Verzonden: zondag 11 januari 2004 14:07
> > Aan: 70uf33q Hu5541n
> > CC: FreeBSD-hackers at FreeBSD.org
> > Onderwerp: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1
> > Installation probelms
> >
> >
> > On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:29, 70uf33q Hu5541n
> > wrote:
> > > hey guys,
> > >
> > > Just got my copy of FreeBSD 5.1.
> > > Spent about an hour going through the BSD
> Handbook
> > and
> > > preparing a Installation checklist.
> > >
> > > ok here's my problem.
> > >
> > > I have a WD 40 GB HDD
> > > the primary partition is 10 GB, with the
> extended
> > > partition 28 GB.(the rest 2 GB is in WD's bank).
> > >
> > > OK , the extended partition has 3 logical
> drives.
> > > To create a slice for BSD, I resized one of the
> > > logical drives to free up some space. About 1.2
> > > GB,cause that's all I can spare.
> > >
> > > When I run the installation through CDROM, and
> the
> > > point where I'm to creat the Freebsd slice,the
> new
> > > partition is not displayed in the "FDISK"
> utility.
> > >
> > > All I get is the primary (10GB) and the whole
> > Extended
> > > (28 GB).
> > > The freespace I guess is "locked into" the
> > Extended
> > > Partiton. Not sure though.
> > Indeed you first have to resize the extended
> > partition before you can use
> > the
> > space to create slices. The "fdisk" program that
> > comes with Windows has no
> > way to do this (except deleting all logicle drives
> > in the extended partition
> > and re-creating them). Have a look at the program
> > "Partition Magic". It can
> > resize partitions and it has a nice user
> interface.
> >
> > grtz,
> > Daan
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