On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:48:59PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:16:55 -0700 > Joe Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since I have about 10 partitions (3primary, 7 extended), I was > > wondering if BSD needs a root partition on one of the primary > > partitions. I have heard this is the case in some of the BSD's. > > Yes. What you call "primary partition" in the BSD world is called slice
True, although I am not quite certain that FreeBSD actually must be booted from a primary partition. I think it depends on the bootmanager. I believe the default bootmanager does require a primary partition though, and the standard installation program probably also requires that so a primary partition is recommended. > and what you call "extended partitions" are called partiotions. Not quite true. Extended partitions are also called slices in BSD. BSD-partitions do not really have a counterpart in the DOS/Windows world. > > So for ad0s1a is: > ad0 = ide disk 0 (primary master) > s1 = first slice > a = first partition on the first slice (usually the / also called "root" partition) > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html > will give you more details > > > -- > IOnut > Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
