Re: Re[2]: can't install debian after freebsd?
Hi,
I had the same problem before. cfdisk does have some
problems. you might want to install debian without
swap and then create/configure swap manually. I
installed win2k/freebsd 4.2/debian-kernel-2.4 in my
own machine successfully.
Dehui
--- fg007@mail1.sjtu.edu.cn wrote:
>
> Hello Carel,
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
> System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 382 3068383+ b
> Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda3 702 1020 2562367+ a5
> BSD/386
> /dev/hda4 1021 4437 27447052+ 5
> Extended
> /dev/hda5 1021 1275 2048256 6
> FAT16
> /dev/hda6 1276 1785 4096543+ b
> Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda7 1786 2231 3582463+ b
> Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda8 2232 2613 3068383+ b
> Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda9 2614 2630 136521 82
> Linux swap
> /dev/hda10 2631 2995 2931831 83
> Linux
> /dev/hda11 2996 3314 2562336 83
> Linux
> /dev/hda12 3315 3557 1951866 83
> Linux
> /dev/hda13 3558 3876 2562336 83
> Linux
> /dev/hda14 3877 4194 2554303+ 83
> Linux
> /dev/hda15 4195 4437 1951866 83
> Linux
>
> I mean debian *installing* program mistake my
> partiotion table.
> When I install debian from scratch,debian installing
> program will
> mistake /dev/hda9 for /dev/hda14(maybe /dev/hda15,i
> dont remember
> clearly)
> mistake /dev/hda10 for /dev/hda15
> /dev/hda11 for /dev/hda16
> .........
> If I delete freebsd partition,/dev/hda3,this mistake
> disappear.
> freebsd has it's partition,/dev/hda3=wd0s2,it's a
> primary partiotion
> absolutly.
> In /dev/hda3,or wd0s2,
> wd0s2a /root
> wd0s2b /swap
> wd0s2e /usr
> wd0s2f /var
> I suspect debian's installing program mistake
> wd0s2a,wd0s2b...as
> extended partion.
> In fact they are all freebsd's own partition.
> Sunday, May 06, 2001, 2:16:22 AM, you wrote:
>
> CF> I'm no partition guru, but...
>
> CF> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:16:59PM +0800,
> fg007@mail1.sjtu.edu.cn wrote:
> >> hi,
> >> I cannot reinstall debian because debian
> cann't recognize my
> >> partitions correctly.
>
> CF> I doubt this, it recognizes them allright, but
> differently from what
> CF> you expected:)
>
> >> I have installed freebsd in /dev/hda2
> >> (including its own partition
> wd0s1a,dawd0s1b,wd0s1e,wd0s1f).
>
> CF> What do you mean `incl its *own* part.'?
> bsd-partitions are partitions
> CF> too:) I guess that hda2 is an extended
> partition, that is a partition
> CF> containing sub partitions. If so I would expect
> linux to count those
> CF> partitions as well. Or is hda2 a bsd specific
> extended partition that
> CF> linux doesn't how to interpreted, like the
> linux-extended partition
> CF> fully hides its content to Microsoft products?
> I guess not.
>
> CF> To frase it differently: there are 4 primary
> partitions, each of which
> CF> can be an extended partition and each extended
> partition can hold at
> CF> most one real partition and one extended
> partition. The primary
> CF> partitions are always numbered 1 to 4. The real
> partitions found in
> CF> those extended partitions are numbered from 5 up
> as long as the OS
> CF> knows how to deal with those extended
> partitions. One very often
> CF> talks about logical partitions when refering to
> the real partitions
> CF> in extended partitions.
>
>
> CF> So in your case:
> CF> /dev/hda2: extended partition, can't hold a file
> system
> CF> /dev/hda5: same as wd0s1a (I guess, as I don't
> know bsd's part. naming scheme)
> CF> /dev/hda6: same as wd0s1b
> CF> /dev/hda7: same as wd0s1e (where are c and d?)
> CF> /dev/hda8: same as wd0s1f
>
> CF> which would put your next linux partition at:
> CF> /dev/hda3: second extended primary partition.
> CF> I guess you've used more then one
> extended (primary) partition
> CF> which holds the next real partiton...
> CF> /dev/hda9: ...your linux partition
>
> >> If I plan to install debain in /dev/hda5,the
> installing program
> >> will mistake /dev/hda5 for /dev/hda8
>
> CF> strange, I would expect /dev/hda9.
>
> CF> For better help, post your partition table, i.e.
> the output of:
>
> CF> # fdisk -l /dev/hda
> CF> # cfdisk -Pt /dev/hda
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> fg
> mailto:fg007@mail1.sjtu.edu.cn
>
>
>
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