On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> In addition to the explanation, show us the output of: >> >> fdisk -l >> >> So we can have an idea of the current state of your hard disk >> partitions. >> >> > " > :~# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, > 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector > size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size > (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc0000000 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 9 72261 de Dell Utility > /dev/sda2 10 1134 9029632 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 1134 11352 82082604 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda4 11353 77825 533944342 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 11353 21733 83385351 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 * 21734 31931 81915403+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 31932 37267 42860351+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda8 42131 52329 81923436 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 52330 62527 81915403+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda10 62528 72726 81923436 83 Linux > /dev/sda11 72727 77825 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda12 37267 42130> 39061504 83 Linux > > Partition table entries are not in disk order " What you need is another hard disk :-P Okay, you have now 3 primary partitions and one extended that holds the rest of the logicals which means that you only can: 1/ Add more logical partitions 2/ Completely re-do your hard disk schema (requires disk formatting) 3/ Add an additional hard disk, either external or internal >> What recent operating system needs to be installed still in a primary >> partition? Can you tell what OS are you going to install? >> >> > I want to try PC-BSD 9 (see http://pcbsd.org/ ), which, unfortunately, > apparently needs to be installed in a primary partition. Mmm, which seems to be true: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/PC-BSD_FAQS#Is_it_possible_to_install_PC-BSD_on_an_extended_partition.3F I didn't know about that requirement for *BSD systems. With today hard disk capacity standards (~2 TiB) it seems to me a bit unrealistic requirement :-/ (...) > so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the prospect > of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. I already pointed out some alternatives and Keith told you about virtualization which can be also another possibility, at least to test the PC-BSD 9 inners :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jkvb5t$hqr$1...@dough.gmane.org
