Thanks all. I have XP and linux share the xtended partition, and now I want to say bye bye linux (I need XP for worldwind s/w) . Ido not see the extended logical drives containing ext3 from sysinstall that is the problem.
The cmdline freebsd fdisk feels like a throw back tp the pdp-11 days :) So I'm going to try and mount them from bsd below my home folder, without deleting them first... until I work out exactly how to use the fbsd fdiks cmdline without damaging anything. Thanks once again! Rgrds On 7/29/06, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Gobbledegeek wrote: > I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not > possible, but never asked anyone so.... > > Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a > single disk? Sure. You'd be mounting filesystems from /dev/ad0s2 rather than ad0s1, for example, depending on your hard drive position in the ATA chain and which FDISK partitions you've used. > For example, I already got a fbsd slice with > partitions in it, now I want to add another and use that space, > after deleting a windoze partition. Should be no problem. > What about using an extended logical partition as a freebsd > slice? IMHO, logical partitions are pure evil which was invented to work around the 4-partition FDISK limit, and are nearly useless to anything which creates its own slices or subpartitions within an FDISK partition the way BSD or Linux can. YMMV, but I would convert the extended partition into a normal one and use it directly within FreeBSD, as I do not believe you can boot from extended partitions... -- -Chuck
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