RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms !-==solved==-!

2004-01-11 Thread 70uf33q Hu5541n
whew! Gentlemen, its done, freeBSD 5.1 has been installed.PartitionMagic 8 did the trick though :( sad that I had to use windows. anyway, this is what I did.(Daan deserves credit) 1.free disk space at the last logical drive of the extended partition. 2.resize the last logical drive to create una

RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

2004-01-11 Thread Avinash Piare
Hi, I had a similair problem as Remko described. I used R-Linux. U can download it from http://www.r-tt.com Put the hard drive, on which u can't reach the certain partition, in a pc with Windows installed on it, run R-Linux and u should be able to see the drive and partition that u couldn't read.

RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

2004-01-11 Thread 70uf33q Hu5541n
> -- > > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder > Elvandar.org/DSINet.org > www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping > newcomers on the > hackerscene > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: 70uf33q Hu5541n [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: zondag 11 jan

RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

2004-01-11 Thread Remko Lodder
ity for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: 70uf33q Hu5541n [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zondag 11 januari 2004 23:35 Aan: Remko Lodder CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms hey Remko, the FreeBS

RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

2004-01-11 Thread 70uf33q Hu5541n
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. Fr

RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation probelms

2004-01-11 Thread Remko Lodder
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 m