On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:04:10AM +0200, Adriaan wrote:
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> On 9/4/07, stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
> > I have a new laptop.
> >
> > It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added
> > Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD
> > next.
> >
> > When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused.
> > Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine
> > booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows.
> >
> > Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   sda1                    Primary   Unknown (27)                  10479.01
> >   sda2        Boot        Primary   FAT16            []           31453.48
> >   sda3                    Primary   Linux ReiserFS                39999.54
> >   sda5                    Logical   Linux swap / Solaris           3997.49
> >   Logical   Free Space                                            74109.78
> >
> > How can I acomplish this?
> 
> The MBR has only 4 slots for partitions. If you only would use primary
> partitions  you can have maximum 4 of these.
> You also can have a single extended partition, combined with 0 to 3
> primary partitions. You cannot have multiple extended partitions.
> 
> If you need to run Linux, it would be best to create 2 logical
> partitions within the extended partition for Linux. One logical for
> the Linux system and the other for Linxu swap.  That would free up the
> current primary ReiserFS.partition.
> 
> While Linux can boot from a logical partitions inside an extended one,
> the BSDs only can boot from a primary partition. So besides Linux you
> could install 3 other operating systems that need a primary partition.
> 
> A possible complication would be a "suspend-to-RAM" partition which
> possible would take away one, only leaving you with only 2 primaries.
> 
> I never owned a laptop, nor did I use suspend-to-RAM so I leave that
> issue to others ;)

So, I need to move the Linux partion (using gpartd), reset the boot loader,
and then I can put the 2 BSD's in the remaining 2 primary partions? 

I don't need the suspend to disk functionality anyway.

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