Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:42:51 PST From: "john bäckstrand" <sandos@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems... Message-ID: <19990119174252.19511.qmail@hotmail.com>
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I have some ideas for improvements to the FreeBSD install program, and some questions. I have 2 HDs with Windows 98/NT on them, (One 3.2Gb(in LBA mode, 4 X FAT16 partitons) and one 4.2GB(in normal mode, FAT16 primary dos partiton+ extended dos partition + a NTFS part. , one primary dos part more )) and I would like to install FreeBSD on the second HD´s primary dos part., from "dos partition" c:. Now, this doesn´t work, it says it cant find the files (and yes, they´re in the correct directory etc) my guess is that my 1st HD is not in "normal" geometry mode in BIOS, or either that it is not a "normal dos" partiton(???). Do you know the answer to this? When the install program boots, it "detects", or at least prints out, the geometrys for the 2 HDs in "normal" mode. Thats all fine, but why doesnt it use those settings later on? When choosing which partition to install to, it uses some rather odd geometry. (And, actually, it reports the 4.2Gb HD being twice as big as it is, VERY vonfusing to have 2(!!) 3.5GB partitons =)..though once it worked out correctly), so you´ll have to change the geometry "by hand" =). And, is it possible to use the "LBA" geometry or any other geometry besides "normal" when installing FreeBSD? In my BIOS it says "some OS´, like SCO-UNIX need normal mode for install". These modes is, on both HDs "normal" "large" "LBA" I think. And, even if it were possible to use LBA mode on my first disk, I can´t specify any geometry on the install media! This would be a nice thing, if it has any use that is... I guess you won´t have the possibility to do any of these "improvements", but could you at least write a bit more on these things in the install docs? Im (trying to =) using FreeBSD 3.0, a PII233, IDE drives etc...32Mb RAM, the HDs is prim/sec Masters, and I have an ATAPI CDROM!....guess this won´t help, but you can never be sure, eh? Hmm, sorry for all those parenthes´ =) /sandos ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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