hey Remko, the FreeBSD sysinstall (i think) program does identify the extended partitions but not the logical drives contained in it.
and yes, I've not introduced myself yet. :D btw, I'm Toufeeq from Chennai,India. 20 yrs old doing my Engineering final year. Been a linux user for 4 years now. FreeBSD , well I was interested more in the way the history/development of the OS took place and that got me hooked on and so I wanted to give it a try. Sadly though, my hard disk is causing problems.Though that wont stop me ;) btw, name uses wat some people call 'lewt' speak its just replacing alphabets with numbers, like 3 = e and a = 4. so 70uf33q is actually Toufeeq. love to explain more but its 4 am and I got a test on Monday. cheers, toufeeq --- Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to interupt, > > but i think that person x, since he has a weird name > ;-) , > means that the partitioning device of freebsd cannot > access the extended > partition > at all. > > I had this with a friend of mine, and we could not > access the devices > anymore since it was > packed inside another partition (we migrated from > linux to freebsd) > We needed to use a bit of software that could > re-enable our partition. > Perhaps Avinash can reply with the software name/ > > Also it is possible that your partition is held > inside another one, > > how to resolve? No idea, i always started with a > clean hdd, or a new one > when the current on needed to be saved. > > Hope it helped a little. > Cheers > > > -- > > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder > Elvandar.org/DSINet.org > www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping > newcomers on the > hackerscene > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Daan Vreeken > [PA4DAN] > Verzonden: zondag 11 januari 2004 14:07 > Aan: 70uf33q Hu5541n > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 > Installation probelms > > > On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:29, 70uf33q Hu5541n > wrote: > > hey guys, > > > > Just got my copy of FreeBSD 5.1. > > Spent about an hour going through the BSD Handbook > and > > preparing a Installation checklist. > > > > ok here's my problem. > > > > I have a WD 40 GB HDD > > the primary partition is 10 GB, with the extended > > partition 28 GB.(the rest 2 GB is in WD's bank). > > > > OK , the extended partition has 3 logical drives. > > To create a slice for BSD, I resized one of the > > logical drives to free up some space. About 1.2 > > GB,cause that's all I can spare. > > > > When I run the installation through CDROM, and the > > point where I'm to creat the Freebsd slice,the new > > partition is not displayed in the "FDISK" utility. > > > > All I get is the primary (10GB) and the whole > Extended > > (28 GB). > > The freespace I guess is "locked into" the > Extended > > Partiton. Not sure though. > Indeed you first have to resize the extended > partition before you can use > the > space to create slices. The "fdisk" program that > comes with Windows has no > way to do this (except deleting all logicle drives > in the extended partition > and re-creating them). Have a look at the program > "Partition Magic". It can > resize partitions and it has a nice user interface. > > grtz, > Daan > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ > Freebsd-hackers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.elvandar.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ===== "Love is control,I'll die if I let go I will only let you breathe My air that you receive Then we'll see if I let you love me." -James Hetfield All Within My Hands,St.Anger Metallica __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
