Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 04:15:18 +1000 (EST) From: David Nugent <davidn@blaze.net.au> To: "Daniel T. Hagan" <dhagan@vt.edu> Cc: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Primary partition info erased Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.960917040956.66J-100000@sdev.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960916120421.5821A-100000@boxer.cslab.vt.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Daniel T. Hagan wrote: >1. Fdisk drive to include a small DOS partition at front (~20MB). >2. Install FreeBSD using the 20Mb partition to help FreeBSD get the >geometry right (assuming you have a big drive). Just a hint for anyone who is contemplating installing FreeBSD sharing the disk with OS/2, and in particular with OS/2's boot manager. Don't let FreeBSD's fdisk *create* the parition (although you'll certainly have to edit the partition table to change the type). Use OS/2's FDISK to do that, making it an "extended" partition, then during the FreeBSD install, change the type to a FreeBSD partition. Slice it from there. Boot Manager will have no problems seeing the partition then, and you'll be able to add it to BM's menu. Naturally, this advice does not apply if you're using the FreeBSD loader. It loads OS/2 just fine, even if it isn's so pretty. BTW, has anyone done any work on a filesystem driver to read OS/2 HPFS drives? I sort of miss that functionality I had with Linux. :) David L. Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia <http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn>; Phone +61-3-791-9547 BBS +61-3-792-3507 Pgpkey <http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/davidn.asc>; finger davidn@blaze.net.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBMj2ZOK0PLjnMZgUtAQGGegP+KX4ryrVZFMvT/6nYK8z9OxCYquIG4drf PTA7WKRlYkx2ksDMMh5S5b1GMxU4awWz2rB33NZ6Y3g5TdJ7I1/Ts8EA31UVQVjB ZTSa+FX1rAG7oX47KLeeHpYp68MDqYPzgQ1s7vQap0OYqvHcVgSY9IdmShSVcx9n tnY1sr5h8iE= =MSRp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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