Re: The installer can't find my partition
From: Nils M Holm (nmh_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/03/04
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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:44:59 +0000 (UTC)
Andreas <andreasv@telia.com> wrote:
> After that, i got this Fdisk-screen. But it's just showing
> MBR (64 bytes or so), my first partition (the one with Windows on), a big
> partition at 60 Gb and some 21 Mb free space after that.
My guess would be that your partitions C through F are logical
volumes set up by windows (what where they called in DOS days
-- extended partitions?).
Since the MBR holds only up to four partitions, part of your disk
has to be subdivided using some other partitioning scheme. The
remaining 21M bytes are either used by an OS that is not known to
FreeBSD's fdisk or they are actually unused (however in this case,
they would not show up as G: in DOS/Win fdisk).
I do not think that you can install FreeBSD on a logical partition.
You need a free primary partition (called a 'slice' using FreeBSD
terminology) in the MBR of your disk.
Nils
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