Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:31:13 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek <david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> To: Alan Weber <aauu@ccms.net> Cc: Oliver Thuns <oliver.thuns@gmx.de>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a partition above the 1024 cylinder Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809071729060.231-100000@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <35F446BF.DE345785@ccms.net>
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Alan Weber wrote: > Oliver Thuns wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I tried to install FreeBSD, but the setup program does not recognize my > > partitions correctly. > > I have 4 partitions: > > > > 400 MB FAT (Win 95) > > 1000 MB NTFS (NT 4.0) > > 700 MB FAT (for FreeBSD) > > 2000 MB FAT (Data) > > > > FreeBSD setup recognizes the first FAT partition and only one extended > > partition with 3700 MB. The BIOS does not support a mapping for large > > harddisks, but this should be no problem with FreeBSD (NT and Linux > > recognize these partitions, Win95 doesn't). > > FreeBSD is seeing your partitions correctly. You have two partitions, a > 400 meg FAT and a 3700meg Extended partition. Your NTFS, 700meg and > 2000meg partitions are logical partitions contained in the extended > partition. FreeBSD needs a primary partition to be installed. You can fix > this situation with Partition Magic ($) by moving up the 2000meg partition > to the end of the NTFS partion and truncating the extended partition at > 3000meg. FreeBSD then can be installed in the remaining 700 meg space. > FreeBSD does not use the DOS FAT file system for itself. After FreeBSD is > installed in the 700 meg partition you can access the DOS FAT partitions > when FreeBSD is running. If you have a way to backup the partitions or > dont have much data I would make a 2000 meg Win 95 FAT 32, a 1000 meg NTFS > and a 1100 meg FreeBSD. I would boot each OS in their respective > partition. You can get drivers for Win 95 & NT that will read the NTFS and > FAT 32 partitions at www.sysinternals.com. FreeBSD Stable can access the > FAT32 partition. If your committed to keeping the extended partition as > is, you may be able to install Linux for a unix-like os. Along the same note: I have FreeBSD set as my second partition and FAT16 on the 1st, How can I mount the MSDOS/FAT16 partion ? And will I have access to the files as any other partition? David L. Vondrasek dlv@watertower.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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