From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 16:42:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B585D15209 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04295; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:38:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Peter Horst Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: Pre-newbie dual-boot Win98/FreeBSD3.2 w/Partition Magic In-Reply-To: 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 On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Peter Horst wrote: > I've been attempting to install FreeBSD on a second primary partition (on an > 8G drive) I created using Partition Magic 4.0. According to the PM > diagnostics, both OSs are within the first 1024 cylinders. I have installed > Boot Magic (bundled w/PM). Here's the problem: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You're using PM. :) Don't use PM to create the FreeBSD partitions, just use it to wrangle the Windoze partitions into shape. If you have a FreeBSD partition, delete it, then run the install. Sysinstall will make a slice with the proper parameters. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message