From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 14:49:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08724 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08633 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA27258; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:48:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 14:48:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: fujie zhang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard disk partition In-Reply-To: <34BC895A.6BC7@nmsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, fujie zhang wrote: > i am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 from a DOS partition onto a AMD K6 > 200 MHz based PC with a 3.2 GB EIDE hard disk. OK. > my hard disk had > originally 3 partitions - 2 DOS FAT primary partitions and an extended > DOS partition. i booted my PC with a prepared FreeBSD boot floppy disk. > then i deleted the extended partition and created the FreeBSD partition > in its place. i also changed one of the DOS FAT partitions to an > extended one as FreeBSD dos not allow 2 FAT partitions. FreeBSD doesn't care how many FAT partitions there are, as long as there is one free slice available to install into. > however, the > installation did go through. at the installation menu there are three > options - first automatic probing and install, second visual mode > configuration and last text mode configuration. when i used either of > the configuration mode, after configuration the computer HUNG. I could > preceed with the non-configuration option to as far as partition and set > up the file system allocations. it would not then go any further. What was the last few line(s) printed before the computer hung? I need to know exactly where the computer hung so I can identify the culprit device. >From the initial menu, you should select `visual' and remove all devices that are not installed in your system, and configure the devices that are present with their proper resources. You can reference Win95's Device Manager for the proper values. > Right now i could not even repartition my hard disk within the MS-DOS > mode. "fdisk" did not work. the computer simply hung right after i typed > in "fdisk". i tried to change the hard disk modes - LBA, large and > Normal. only under "Normal" did "fdisk" work. however, only 504 MB of > the hard disk could be accessed. i can still boot my computer into > windows 95. but only one of the 3 original partitions are accessible. Well, the extended partition you deleted, so that's gone. I'm curious to know how you `changed' the primary partition into an extended partition, since that involves deleting the partition. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major