Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:16:14 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Silakhdar Krikeb" <Silakhdar.Krikeb@uab.ericsson.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_FreeBSD_installation_f=F6r_a_newbie?= Message-ID: <008301c11379$a8e16980$8200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <3B57D7AA.CF662371@uab.ericsson.se> <002301c11277$8ee40180$8200a8c0@apana.org.au> <3B5BDC1E.1B819EB3@uab.ericsson.se>
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I doubt it ..... the FreeBSD disk editor has never given me a hint of trouble, but then I've never had the inclination to stuff around with multiple operating systems on a single hard drive. Given the present price of hard drives (even with the exchange rate of the pacific peso) I can't see any reason to subject oneself to that sort of trauma. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Silakhdar Krikeb" <Silakhdar.Krikeb@uab.ericsson.se> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:11 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation för a newbie > 1. Is not this problem a bug in the Freebsd:s FDISK EDITOR. > > Doug Young wrote: > > > > The experts probably regard this as a "technical" question that would be > > better posted to the questions rather than the newbies list. > > > > Personally I've always regarded multi-O/S boot managers as evil ... a far > > more straightforward solution is to use a totally separate hard drive for > > each > > operating system. As long as you don't have messy boot sector stuff, > > FreeBSD doesn't appear to be particularly concerned about hard drive size. > > eg I've got a few old Digital Venturis / Celebris systems with BIOS that > > identified 4 & 8 Gb drives as 99Mb, but most of them find the correct > > amount of space during installation. > > 2. If I want to use multi-partitions, how can i determine the size > of each partition. > > By the way, during the weekend I successfully installed openBSD2.9. The > openbsd > installation program hade no problem discovering the hard disk > geometry. > > My best regards > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Silakhdar Krikeb" <Silakhdar.Krikeb@uab.ericsson.se> > > To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:03 PM > > Subject: FreeBSD installation för a newbie > > > > > Hi! > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD (freebsd 4.3-release) for the first > time. > > > Earlier i hade linux and win98 that worked fine. I removed linux and > > > repartitioned the mig hard disk into two primary partitions (i used > > > PartitionMagic). the win98 partition is 1800M. The Freebsd partition > > > would be about 4349M. > > > The problem that i faced was that Freebsd didn't recognize the geometry > > > of my harddisk, which is 784/255/63 (C/H/S). > > > FreeBSD's FDISK editor show allways the value 204/255/63 (which means > > > that the harddisk has only 1880M) > > > I tried to change the values (C/H/S) from the FDISK EDITOR during the > > > installation process using the the commando G = set set geometry. But > > > this didn't work. > > > Any idea what to do? > > > > > > > > > With best regards. > > > Silakhdar Krikeb > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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