Hi, IIRC:
(1) after trying to install Debian in hda5 (this or hda9 were proposed by dselect) (see Fdisk1 below) and using hda10 as swap partition, I found hda8 and hda2(?) killed. I couldn't boot Debian, because LILO didn't want to install in hda5. (2) So I killed hda2 and created hda2 for BSD and hda3 for debian with BSD-fdisk (see Fdisk2 below). I installed Debian with hda3 as / and hda5 as /usr and hda10 as swap. The kernel reported the following hd-structure: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4 < hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 > mount reported hda3 as / and hda5 as /usr. Starting redhat on hda9, "linux2" still had its old (pre-Debian-inst) content! Starting debian, mount still reported hda3 as / and hda5 as /usr. "Save" could be mounted as hda8. (3) Did some work with Debian, I think. (4) I must have reinstalled Debian, it now runs with hda3 used as /, no other ext2-partitions, no swap. (5) After adding a BSD swap partition as a BSD partition to hda2 (reducing the / of BSD) and reinstalling FreeBSD 3.1, the kernel reports the following hd-structure: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4 < hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 > hda2 keeps running, even after using Debian. But now, hda9 is killed. "Save" can be mounted now as hda9, I think. It seems to me, that some parts of the install process (dselect and fdisk, cfdisk see other post) don't see BSD partions and name "linux2" hda5, giving this as parameter to some lower-level linux tools (mfs.ext2fs?), which see the BSD partitions as "extended" partitions and name them hda5 etc, so "linux2" gets hda6 or hda7 (depending on the number of BSD partitions), but don't check for the partition type (!!!). (My personal opinion is, that naming extended partitions with increasing numbers is stupid. Whatever I do on the hd, it shoudn't change the name of the partition (except deleting it). Fdisk1 shows, that primary partitions seem to work that way. But that's something for the kernel developers.) BTW: Due to the size of hda8 and because it should have been written soon to CDs, I have no backup. Does someone know a hint, how to reconstruct the partition? Ben Fdisk1: (guessed) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M (Boot) /dev/hda2 14 110 779152? a5 BSD/386 (FreeBSD) /dev/hda4 111 1232 9012465 5 Extended ... (same as Fdisk2) Fdisk2: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M (Boot) /dev/hda2 14 75 498015 a5 BSD/386 (FreeBSD) /dev/hda3 76 110 281137+ 83 Linux native (Debian) /dev/hda4 111 1232 9012465 5 Extended /dev/hda5 366 625 2088418+ 83 Linux native (Linux "2") /dev/hda6 626 690 522081 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M (Data) /dev/hda7 691 950 2088418+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M (Save) /dev/hda8 951 1232 2265133+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M (Music) /dev/hda9 111 238 1028097 83 Linux native (Redhat) /dev/hda10 239 247 72261 82 Linux swap /dev/hda11 248 365 947803+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M (Windows)
