From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 22:01:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA04551 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:01:40 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA04539 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:01:24 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id FAA03216; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 05:55:46 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511070555.FAA03216@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IDE disk > 500MB To: cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au (Carey Nairn) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 05:55:45 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Carey Nairn" at Nov 7, 95 03:24:40 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1585 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Carey Nairn stands accused of saying: > I have a 486DX33 with a 1.2GB Seagate drive which uses software to > translate the geometry so that DOS etc can use it. I have Win95, NT > workstation 3.51 installed and I would like to install FreeBSD on the > remaining 500MB. The problem is that if I hold down CTRL during boot to > boot from a floppy as instructed, the BSD boot disk doesn't want to > boot. If I boot with the floppy in the drive to start with, the FreeBSD > installer can't see the other two partitions (500MB FAT, 200MB NTFS), and > wants the whole disk. I searched the mail archives and found a reference > to a program called pfdisk (which I tried), but after setting the > geometry in the installation I still don't see the other partitions. > > can anyone help with this ? Which translation software are you using? It's highly likely that you won't be able to install FreeBSD in this situation, unfortunately. The basic problem is that the BIOS can't boot an operating system that is located beyond the 500M point. It's more complicated than that, of course, but that's the basis of the problem. > Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[