Partitioning

[Teilhard Knight]

> 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


Thank you very much for your comments. I think that I learned from this
experience. I hope one day to be able to help other newbies, but I am very
short of time. Maybe that's the reason I keep being a newbie myself,
although I installed 4.7 several months ago.

Teilhard