[GNUz] freebsd

[Rik Tindall]

dave wrote:

>live in hornby area
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That's off my standard routes, but..

>so how do you use fdisk ? 
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 From a liveCD - Knoppix or Suse etc, or make a boot floppy..

- IIRC - so long since I had to (re-)partition!

>is it before you even try to install freebsd ?
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Yes, I do it  that way. Take time to plan for the entire life of the 
system build - enough partitions for every Nix you might like to try, 
then never revisit the disk structure again. You can make the LNX's all 
share the same Swap, but BSD will make its own (and is all of it 
difficult to access from LNX, tho not vice versa).

>or is it via msdos fdisk from a floppy ?
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FreeBSD won't make much sense of that method - it can't see or use an 
Extended Partition.

Good luck,

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