From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 04:26:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA11196 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 04:26:52 -0800 Received: from stl-17sima ([150.211.20.17]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA11157 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 04:26:33 -0800 Message-Id: <199503281226.EAA11157@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: from stl-17sima by 0.STL-17SIMA.ARMY.MIL id aa16078; 28 Mar 95 6:23 CST To: questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: gaspar@STL-17SIMA.ARMY.MIL Subject: Installing to Syquest Drive Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 06:23:41 CST From: Al Gaspar Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a CompuAdd 486DX66 with 16 MB of RAM and an Adaptec 154X controller. Off of the SCSI controller I have my C: drive, a QIC 80 tape drive, a CD-ROM, and a SyQuest 270MB removable disk drive. I want to install FreeBSD on the SyQuest drive. I have my binary distribution on the SyQuest drive. It takes up about 53 MB. When I boot from the installation floppy, both of my hard drives are recognized; however, Fdisk sees my SyQuest drive as having 256MB total with all 256MB assigned to DOS. In DOS I show about 214MB free. I realize there is some overhead, but why don't I show any free disk space? Is there something special I need to do for a SyQuest drive? I haven't yet subscribed to this mailing list; so please reply to me directly. Thanks for any help. Cheers-- Al -- Al Gaspar USAMC SIMA, ATTN: AMXSI-TTC, 1222 Spruce St., St. Louis, MO 63103-2834 COMMERCIAL: (314) 331-4354 AUTOVON: 555-4354 relay1.uu.net!stl-17sima.army.mil!gaspar