From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 3:22:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C093337B401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 03:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id NAA14558; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:27:28 +0100 Message-ID: <3A8BBC28.9A1A574B@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:23:20 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dimitrijevic Milena Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD References: <3A8B1260.CB7EB418@videotron.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dimitrijevic Milena schrieb: > > Hello, > > I read the installation guide, and it said that I have to make sure > that my root partition is below 1024 cylinders... > > The thing is that I have Win98 installed on my first Primary > partition and I've created a Logical partition for FreeBSD... and it's > not written anywhere if it will work or must it absolutely be teh first > Primary partition to install FreeBSD??? A "logical" partition is not a real partition. FreeBSD needs one of your for primary partition table entries. You may delete _all_ logical partitions along with the primary partition containing all the logical partitions. After doing so, FreeBSD will install into the free disk space. Some BIOSes are not able to start an operating system located beyond the 1023rd cylinder, thus the free space on your disk has to start before that invisible border. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message