USB Installer can not find my primary disks ?

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jwfangjw

I have a 160G disk formated as following, In linux terms:

Code: 
/dev/sda1   40G  primary
/dev/sda2   40G  primary
/dev/sda3   40G  primary
/dev/sda4   extended
/dev/sda5   swap
/dev/sda6   ext3
When I enter the BSD disk utility, it shows only /dev/sda4 and my usb key (I infer it's /dev/sda4 cause it contains two partitions in it).

Is this a bug? Or did I do something wrong? How to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

And another info, my laptop has a recovery partion with Vista, but I already erased that. But the BSD installer print message like the following:
Code: 
Driver C: ... XXXX
Driver D: ... YYYY,

Rally strange. :)
 
Which BSD? Which disk utility? What was the exact output?

When you say "BSD installer", do you mean PC-BSD's "bsdinstaller"?
 
I was using the 8.1 USB memstick. BTW, the HD is formatted using GPT when I tried Mac OSX86, Maybe that's the cause?
 
I don't remember the exact output now, but it's something like xxx4, which I guess is hda4, yyy1 or yyy0, which I guess is my USB key.
 
jwfangjw said:
I was using the 8.1 USB memstick. BTW, the HD is formatted using GPT when I tried Mac OSX86, Maybe that's the cause?
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sysinstall doesn't understand GPT, last I knew.
 
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