From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 9: 0:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edtnps04.telusplanet.net (edtnps04.telusplanet.net [198.161.157.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF85214FDA for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swheeler@altech.ab.ca) Received: from ftmmpx01-port-40.agt.net ([161.184.224.41]:3558 "HELO shannon-s") by smtp1.telusplanet.net with SMTP id ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:00:20 -0600 Message-ID: <05bd01bf1bdd$d38fc400$0307070a@shannon-s> From: "Shannon Wheeler" To: Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:03:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Tom Embt 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