Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:04:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Joshua Byrnes <jbyrnes@w-link.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HDD setup & boot questions Message-ID: <38E1105E.D4B0071D@3-cities.com> References: <NDBBJCNHCLOLJNINLFAFOEEECAAA.jbyrnes@w-link.net>
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Joshua Byrnes wrote: > > I apologize if this is the incorrect address to which to direct this > question. I am a newbie and taking interest in FreeBSD and Linux for > recreational/educational purposes. I purchased "The Complete FreeBSD" and > it is a wonderful book but I cannot seem to find an answer to my particular > question/situation. > Right now I have 2 EIDE HDD, both WDC with the following statistics s my > BIOS reports them > SIZE CYL HD PRECOMP LAND > HDD1:NORMAL 13677 26500 16 65535 26499 > HDD2:NORMAL 10141 19650 16 65535 19649 > > I have an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard, which can read large HDD's correctly. > I have Partition Magic 4.0 > > I am planning to start from scratch reformatting both drives and Triple > booting WIN98/or WIN2000, FreeBSD and Linux. > > ***Going with the assumption that I will have to install the MS-Operating > System on the first partition of drive 1, what are the requirements/ options > in where I can Install FreeBSD and Linux? Can I have HDD1 all for MS-OS and > HDD2 for FreeBSD and Linux? Or is there a location requirement that I need > to follow. I have read about the requirement of the root file system > needing to be installed within the 1024 cyl. Because my BIOS can handle > very large HDD, am I still limited by this?**** I just added FreeBSD 4.0 to my working Windows 2000 Pro/NT4/Win 98 system. None of my windows systems are located in my "C" drive. It is available for handling file transfers between DOS, NT4, and etc. I don't have Linux on any of my systems. I tried it first and then pulled the HD from the system and added FreeBSD. The Linux HD is still on the shelf in the conductive wrapper. I configured the system with a 2GB FAT, a 13GB FreeBSD slice, and a 4.5GB extended partition. The / partition needs to be under cylinder 1023. It a 100MB and is the first partition in my 13GB system. I tried installing FreeBSD 3.4 first but that didn't work. I kept getting "Illegal Partitions" when I added anything after the FreeBSD slice. The 3.4 fdisk is doing something bogus and breaks my system. 4.0, on the other hand, produced no problems and worked on the first try. I installed 4.0 from the iso that I downloaded and burned the image to a CDROM. You have to be able to switch the active partition back to the NT loader after you install FreeBSD. I use my Win 98 startup disk's fdisk to do that. This step is the largest pain in the whole process. The /boot/boot1 (same drive) or /boot/boot0 (different drive) become the c:/bootsec.bsd for the ntldr. Good luck, Kent > > Your response is greatly appreciated. > > Sincerely, > -Josh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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