Too much OS for 1 disk...

[Glaurung]

I've decided to use my second disk to install freeBSD, openBSD and Suse.

The problem is, I use an extended partition to make more than 4 partitions. Linux recognizes the partitions inside the extended partition (of course, since I used fdisk under linux) but for the *BSDs it looks like one big partition.

Any idea how I should divide my disk so that a) every OS has a bootable partition, b) I can install at least 3 operating systems?

[dieselboy]

I am not sure what the point of this would be? but when you load BSD it takes you through the mem allocation device.. what do you see there?

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diesel

[Glaurung]

Sorry for being so vague, but what I wanted to say was: I have 3 primary partitions and 3 logical (inside 1 extended). I would use the primary partitions to boot Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD respectively and the logical partitions would hold /. Linux understands this, but OpenBSD just sees the primary partition. (Haven't tried with FreeBSD). Is there a way to tell the OpenBSD installer that I want to use partitions inside that extended partition as well?

[dieselboy]

well in BSD you have partitions and then you have what are called slices which could be correllated to the primary and logical in Linux... it might only see the primary so create another for BSD. I think it first asks you to make a slice and then partition it for / and other directories...

does this make any sense to you?

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diesel

[Glaurung]

does this make any sense to you?


It does, in theory at least http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif Getting that obscure openbsd fdisk to do what _I_ want is another thing ...

But after some serious tweaking (I was almost in tears when I finished) I got WinNT, Qnx, OpenBsd, FreeBsd and Linux to run ...

Thanks for your help!

[This message has been edited by Glaurung (edited 02 November 2000).]

[dieselboy]

glad I could help out!!! by the way? how do you snip out comments from the previous post?

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diesel

[Glaurung]

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