Re: bsdlabel (can't create ad0s9[a-f])

run10kswim_at_directvinternet.com
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 09:43:00 -0800

Michel Talon wrote:

>> The author phk is well known for implementing
>> stuff that works well but not caring a bit for
>> compatibility with exotic configurations.

Hang the DJ.

>> Since freebsd is not supposed to be installed
>> in extended partitions it is very plausible he has
>> not implemented what is necessary to recursively
>> find such partitions,...

semantics? i'm not really trying to *install FreeBSD* there.
that is, i have no desire to load a full-blown FB OS there
complete with root/swap/tmp/usr/var/etc. partitions. i only
want to create two new filesystems. i plan to use the extra
5G of space to hold my existing (90% full) /usr and /var
partitions. you know, to move my data over to the new
partitions and then mount those new paritions back
beneath the /.

>> This being said, let me repeat that FreeBSD is not
>> supposed to be installed in extended partitions, period.

sounds like you have the last word.

>> Go look at Linux if you want to do that.

someone has called Linux: "a benign dictatorship". i might
prefer to live under that as a political system but not as
an end-user.

thanks for your assistance, MT.

 - ken h.

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