From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 17:54:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02492 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:54:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrike.depaul.edu (pmucci@shrike.depaul.edu [140.192.1.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01971 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pmucci@shrike.depaul.edu) Received: from localhost (pmucci@localhost) by shrike.depaul.edu (8.8.3/8.5) with SMTP id TAA25363; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:46:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:46:58 -0600 (CST) From: Patrick M Mucci Reply-To: Patrick M Mucci To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: EZ-Drive & installing from dos partition Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't have a question at this point, but I think it should be noted (in BSD lit and faq etc..) that freeBSD will not install from a dos partition created by ez-drive disk controller software... mostly in use on older pc's in order to adress disks over 500 megs. the fdisk editor fails to recognize the dos partitions that ez-drive makes... why exactly does this happen ? I don't know, and don't have the time to investigate. when I remove the drive from ez-drives control and return it to bios... fbsd install has no problem recognizing the fat16 partitons that are otherwise 'unknown'. I may be wrong about this, but if this problem is reported by others it would probably save some time and frustration -Pat Mucci To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message