On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:49:58PM +0100, John Michaels wrote: > I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with > FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then > 'follow along' the book. > > I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which > already has Windows Me (and Slackware). Because of Windows not always > behaving itself, I have split the 60Gb into (10Gb and 20Gb) for > windows and 5Gb for slackware. These are primary partitions. An > extended partition holds swap and /home logical partitions. Half of > the remaining space of 10Gb was to be allocated to FreeBSD. > > I started installation, went into the 'fdisk' to create a 'slice' of > 5000M for FreeBSD. This was done. The next screen asked about > bootmanagers, I asked for it and then the next screen gave the > following message: > > Disk slicing warning Max one 'fat' allowed as child of whole > > When I hit enter, no other option available, the installation returns > me to the disk partitioning screen. This cycle repeats. The only way > out is by cancelling the installation. > > I have more than one fat partition to reduce chances of Windows > crashing and spending hours in scandisk checking the various disks. > Surely with the large disks now available, my problem is quite common? > Am I right in assuming that FreeBSD does not allow more than one > 'FAT' partition on any disk? Why? > > Naturally this problem is NOT mentioned in the book!
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