Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 21:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: Yaning Wang <yaning@shell.dave-world.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help !! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970510204751.604C-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <33750F99.115D@shell.dave-world.net>
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[ begin FreeBSD FAQ clip ] 2.13. What about disk managers? My BIOS doesn't support large drives! FreeBSD recognises the Ontrack Disk Manager and makes allowances for it. Other disk managers are not supported. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you just want to use the disk with FreeBSD you don't need a disk manager. Just configure the disk for as much space as the BIOS can deal with (usually 504 megabytes), and FreeBSD should figure out how much space you really have. If you're using an old disk with an MFM controller, you may need to explicitly tell FreeBSD how many cylinders to use. If you want to use the disk with FreeBSD and another operating system, you may be able to do without a disk manager: just make sure the FreeBSD boot partition and the slice for the other operating system are in the first 1024 cylinders. [ end FreeBSD FAQ clip ] I believe the above is still true and if not I'm sure someone will jump in with a correction. I use Ontrack Disk Manager and it is quite compatible with FreeBSD. There is a good tutorial through: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html :dealing with running Multi OS's that you probably should read through before proceeding. I know it's not much but its a place to start. Don't Panic it's all still there as a matter of fact if you use the install floppy you should be able to see your dos formatted partition -- unless you mounted it in the partition editor. Good Luck. On Sat, 10 May 1997, Yaning Wang wrote: >Recently I bought FreeBSD from Walnut Creek CDROM, but I have some >trouble to install it to my PC. > >My machine: >Packard Bell Legend 100CD >Pentium 60 >Matshita CDROM/Panasonic Drive CR-563 >HD1 Western Digital 2500RTL, 2.5G (this one is controled by companion EZ >drive) >HD2 Seagate ST3491A, 420M (this one can be control by either EZ drive or >the BIOS) >RAM 24M > >The problem: >1. It does not install to HD1 at all. Why ? > >(I only tried to install to HD2, alone or make HD2 as primary) >1. Boot up to DOS and install directly from CD > I bootp up machine to DOS and I can see FreeBSD CD. Then I launch > the installation from CD drive (CD-drive>install). In the > installation 'media' menu, when I choose CD-ROM, the error message > said: > CD-ROM is not found (something like that) > >2. I then made a boot floppy, according the procedure. when I chose > CD-ROM as the media type, I got the same error message. > >3. Then I tried to install from a DOS partition. It works but not the >way I wanted. > a. It only installed from a primary DOS partition in HD2. Since HD2 >is too > small, not much I can install. > b. Worse of all is, my Win 95 is not able to run after the install. > (I have to boot the machine from HD2 in order to use FreeBSD). >When >I press > F1 to boot from DOS, it just sits there do nothing. > >Please give me some help, anything will be highly appreciated. > > >-- >Yaning Wang >========================================================== >TP Analyst >Network Service, Systems Technology >State Farm Insurance Companies >http://homepage.dave-world.net/~yaning _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | | /^\_________________________/^\ | | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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