confused new customer

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:31:41AM +0000, norseman wrote:
>  To: FreeBSD et al
> 
> 	     I don't think this qualifies as a bug, but...
> 
>      Yesterday (well... now it's last week) I received a copy of FreeBSD 
> 5.4 in a 4-CD box along with the the usual invoice.  The surprise was  I 
> hadn't  ordered it in many a year. All the  information in  the  invoice 
> was correct and up to date. I don't know how this happened but IT IS OK, 
> at  least this time!  Tell you what - I'll keep the FreeBSD 5.4  CD  set 
> and you keep the money my credit card company will send you. That should 
> make us both very happy. :)

You need to contact the company that send you the disk (I'm guessing
FreeBSD Mall).  The FreeBSD project does not produce CDs (just ISO
images).

The rest of this post is more appropriate to the freebsd-questions list.

>      Obviously  the  above  paragraph  means I am  a  true  novice  with 
> FreeBSD. As such I have run into a snag. I've been using Slackware since 
> its first CD came out. I have a disk partitioned as follows:
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             1       255   2048256    6  FAT16
> /dev/hda2   *       256      1275   8193150    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda3          1276      7296  48363682+  85  Linux extended
> /dev/hda5          1276      1403   1028128+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda6          1404      2168   6144831   83  Linux native
> /dev/hda7          2169      3698  12289693+  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda8          3699      7296  28900903+  83  Linux native
> 
> Command (m for help):
> 
> 
>      The  idea  was to use /dev/hda7 for FreeBSD, but FreeBSD  seems  to 
> have  a  problem with this disk. It will not acknowledge  /dev/hda3  and 
> beyond.
> 
>      I  looked into the Doc section of FreeBSD's website and  found  the 
> pertinent parts rather out of date. (No offense meant - the cry for help 
> with  the Docs/man is right there on the home page.)  This does  present 
> the problem of what to do next.  Slackware's fdisk has been quite  happy 
> dealing  with all the formats below. At least all I've had  occasion  to 
> use.  (some are: DOS 1,4,6; Win 7,b,c,f; CP/M 52; Linux 82,83,85.) Yes - 
> some need modules to work, but at least the fdisk provides the clues  as 
> to which. One gets used to something and forgets the whole world is  not 
> the  same. The initial assumption was that FreeBSD had the  same  tables 
> (abilities).
> 
> 
>  0  Empty           1b  Hidden Win95 FA 64  Novell Netware  bb  Boot Wizard hid
>  1  FAT12           1c  Hidden Win95 FA 65  Novell Netware  c1  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
>  2  XENIX root      1e  Hidden Win95 FA 70  DiskSecure Mult c4  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
>  3  XENIX usr       24  NEC DOS         75  PC/IX           c6  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
>  4  FAT16 <32M      39  Plan 9          80  Old Minix       c7  Syrinx
>  5  Extended        3c  PartitionMagic  81  Minix / old Lin da  Non-FS data
>  6  FAT16           40  Venix 80286     82  Linux swap      db  CP/M / CTOS / .
>  7  HPFS/NTFS       41  PPC PReP Boot   83  Linux native    de  Dell Utility
>  8  AIX             42  SFS             84  OS/2 hidden C:  df  BootIt
>  9  AIX bootable    4d  QNX4.x          85  Linux extended  e1  DOS access
>  a  OS/2 Boot Manag 4e  QNX4.x 2nd part 86  NTFS volume set e3  DOS R/O
>  b  Win95 FAT32     4f  QNX4.x 3rd part 87  NTFS volume set e4  SpeedStor
>  c  Win95 FAT32 (LB 50  OnTrack DM      8e  Linux LVM       eb  BeOS fs
>  e  Win95 FAT16 (LB 51  OnTrack DM6 Aux 93  Amoeba          ee  EFI GPT
>  f  Win95 Ext'd (LB 52  CP/M            94  Amoeba BBT      ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/
> 10  OPUS            53  OnTrack DM6 Aux 9f  BSD/OS          f1  SpeedStor
> 11  Hidden FAT12    54  OnTrackDM6      a0  IBM Thinkpad hi f4  SpeedStor
> 12  Compaq diagnost 55  EZ-Drive        a5  BSD/386         f2  DOS secondary
> 14  Hidden FAT16 <3 56  Golden Bow      a6  OpenBSD         fd  Linux raid auto
> 16  Hidden FAT16    5c  Priam Edisk     a7  NeXTSTEP        fe  LANstep
> 17  Hidden HPFS/NTF 61  SpeedStor       b7  BSDI fs         ff  BBT
> 18  AST SmartSleep  63  GNU HURD or Sys b8  BSDI swap
> 
> Command (m for help):
> 
> 
>      OK  -  First:  any suggestions on adding FreeBSD  to  the  existing 
> system (which is a laptop)?

FreeBSD doesn't support installation on extended partions.  This is
unfortunate, but it's how things are today.  We never developed support
largly because FreeBSD has it's own partiion table that sets in a single
MBR partion and thus we haven't needed extended partions like Windows
and Linux.

The CD is a live file system, you need to select the fixit option in the
menu.  This won't fix the extended partion issue.

-- Brooks