Bug 14428
| Summary: | can't install from extended DOS partition | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | reichert <reichert> |
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | jkh |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 3.3-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh Over to Mr. Sysinstall State Changed From-To: open->closed This is correct, sysinstall does not support installations off of extended partitions, sorry. |
I'm attempting to FreeBSD on a laptop, where Win98 already lives. I shrank the Win98 partition, then used Win98's 'fdisk' to created a 500M extended partition. I successfully formatted this new partition 9again, from Win98), then created a minimal distribution tree as per INSTALL.TXT. Then I try to use this DOS partition to install FreeBSD, sysinstall (as launched from the boot floppies) sys simply: 'Error mounting /dev/wd0s2 on /dist: Invalid argument (22)'. The disk partitioning in sysinstall shows: Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 2388897 2388959 wd0s1 2 fat 11 2388960 1028160 3417119 wd0s2 4 extended 5 3417120 4747680 8164799 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C 8164800 272160 8436959 wd0s4 1 unknown 160 8436960 15120 8452079 - 6 unused 0 Fix: Using sysinstall's partition tool, change the extended DOS partition's type to '11' (fat). Win98 will think the FS is gone, you can simply reformat, and reinstall the release tree you want. I was able to successfully install with this method. Oh, and for the record, BottEasy lets you dual-boot easily...