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Subject: can't install from extended DOS partition
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>Number:         14428
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       can't install from extended DOS partition
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    jkh
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 19 23:20:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 3 21:02:25 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan  3 21:02:58 PST 2000
>Originator:     Brian Reichert
>Release:        3.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
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

>How-To-Repeat:

>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...


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh 
Responsible-Changed-By: phantom 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 20 07:59:25 PST 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to Mr. Sysinstall 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 3 21:02:25 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is correct, sysinstall does not support installations off of extended 
partitions, sorry. 
>Unformatted:
