Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 15:32:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, iang@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation query Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960509153128.17596F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960509235219.25062R-100000@chain.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > I think I can cut this whole story a lot shorter. I took the plunge, and > killed the partitions, overlays, etc on both drives. I then fdisk'd the > first drive as a dos partition (full partition) and installed freebsd > not using entire disk and with boot manager. Machine booted, no > boot manager and on dos partition. To cut a LOOOONG story short, > I finally got the boot manager on the first drive and the entire > second drive as a bsd disk. If everything is working OK then i think I'll shut up. :-) > > since a friend of mine had an 800MB IDE on a fbsd box and it didn't have > > an overlay (but I was never around to watch it boot). > > But was it a old machine (i.e. pre e-ide) ? Yes, old 486 motherboard. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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