Partitioning

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:10:19 -0600
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk at hotpost.co.uk> wrote:

> I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1. I have created by means other than
> the installation program, a partitioning of my disk (160 Gig), and I
> want to install on one of those partitions.

OK. 

> I have three primary partitions and one
> extended where I have installed Linux in one logical partition. I want
> FreeBSD to go in another logical partition. 

Not possible.

> When I installed 4.7 in another
> computer, I had no problems whatsoever.

I doubt.

> But with 5.1 the partitioning
> utility only sees the primary partitions, the first three and the
> extended one as a whole. 

You're talking about fdisk, right ?

> It sees the extended partition as one partition without the
> logical ones created there. 

Yes.

> Apparently I must have the partition for FreeBSD as FAT, but other
> tools do not help me because the partition is too large to be FAT.

NO. FreeBSD partitions are UFS, with id 165 and not FAT.
 
> Any help to solve this will be appreciated.

You would do your self an us a a big favour reading:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html


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