Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:03:02 -0600 From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <05bd01bf1bdd$d38fc400$0307070a@shannon-s>
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-----Original Message----- From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> Date: October 20, 1999 8:25 PM >>I have a 12G drive and I couldn't get FreeBSD to work in the last half of >the drive because it only saw 16383 cylinders rather than the 21xxx that >there actually was. So I put FreeBSD in the first partition and Win95 in >the second. > >Dandy. > >>I use a freeware partition manager to select which to boot from here at >work but at home with the same setup I use fdisk to specify the active >partition. Windows has no problem booting from the second partition as long >as it's a primary partition and marked active. > >If it works.. I'd use a boot manager, it's easier. Well it's on a 486 (AMD K5/133. PCI) whose BIOS is not flashable and doesn't handle the entire 12G properly. I therefore had to use Disk Manager when I set it up originally (all Win95). If I install a boot manager I lose the Disk Manager so the BIOS (I guess that'd be where the problem lies) won't see the second partition and let me boot from it. Therefore I always have to use fdisk when I want to boot into the non-current OS. >>I don't know for sure whether this would work if the first partition was >also a DOS partition but I think you'd have a hard time creating more than >one DOS partition anyway. >> > >What's wrong with lots of DOS partitions? Well, I meant DOS's FDISK won't let you create more than one Primary Partition. Shannon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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