[Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

[Avinash Piare]

Hi,

I had a similair problem as Remko described. I used R-Linux. U can download it
from http://www.r-tt.com

Put the hard drive, on which u can't reach the certain partition, in a pc with
Windows installed on it, run R-Linux and u should be able to see the drive and
partition that u couldn't read.

Good luck !

Avinash Piare
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M avinash at piare.org, piare01 at ie.hva.nl


Citeren Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>:

> 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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