Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:12:23 -0800 From: "Russell E. Mayfield" <russellm@ws-link.com> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Installation & fdisk partitioning (slices) Message-ID: <NIBBKGPHHCHMBLJMIGDAIEOACDAA.russellm@ws-link.com>
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I picked up a copy of the "FreeBSD Handbook 2nd Ed" the other day, it came with a installation disk for version 5.1 Current and that is what I am trying to install. This is my first attempt to do anything with FreeBSD. First let me describe my system, I have a pentium 200 MMX cpu with 128MB Ram and two 20GB hard drives (ad0 & ad2). I am installing FreeBSD to ad2s2. I made room for fbsd with Partition Magic so when installing fbsd all I had to do was make it bootable and format it. The first time I installed fbsd everything went well but I remember wondering about the C flag that came up with the A flag when I made the slice bootable. Later I decided on a better way to arrange my partitions, so I had to reinstall fbsd. I tried for 4 days to get that C flag back in there (which the online help says is the default) and couldn't. When ever I went ahead wihtout the C flag it made the disk unusable to anything except fbsd, also in the disklabel program the d partition was skiped the first time, which the handbook cautions about using, but without the C flag I had to make a fake partition then delete it to get ride of it. Finaly I decided to live dangerously an I changed the geometry of the drive to match the bios figures. It seems to work, but I haven't gotten into it very deep. Can somebody shed some light on this, and should I make out a bug report? Thanks Russ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.614 / Virus Database: 393 - Release Date: 3/5/04
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