From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 20:40:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10265 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:40:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa3-18.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10258 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00990; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807140339.UAA00990@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: bladez@mindless.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <35AA9FAB.B6C851F2@mindless.com> (bladez@mindless.com) Subject: Re: My laptop Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did a similar thing. I partitioned the disk into partitions that allowed booting. The first partition was below 500Mb. Actually, I used 40MB and made it the root partition. I put DOS on the partition. Then, I used the FreeBSD sysinstall. The Seagate disk manager will not work with FreeBSD. After booting, FreeBSD does not use BIOS to access the disk. What kind of laptop is this? The easiest thing is to try it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message