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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 23:15:55 +0200
From:      Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re:fips for large disks
Message-ID:  <99051723171901.00970@tw.oden.se>

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> Narana Kannappan <narana@cisco.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >    I have win98 installed on a 8GB hard-drive.
> >    I wanted to repartition it so that I could
> >    put the freeBSD root partion in that. 
> > 
> >    I used the 'fips' program that came with the
> >    2.2 CDROM. But I got an error which said something
> >    like "..end cylinder head 254 invalid" and it quit.
> > 
> >    Am I using an old version of fips that doesnt partition
> >    large disks ?

Why don't You use fdisk in a DOS-window in Win98 to do the very first base
partions? It will work with large disks?
Make an extended partition of xMB and then a logical of the very same xMB and
in the same place (the logical is part of the extended).
This worked to me.
Then, of course, You will have to use the BSD fdisk during installation to
slice.

Thomas


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