Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:42:27 -0800 From: Jonathan Hahn <hahn@and.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hahn@and.com Cc: freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing on FAT32 w/Partition Magic Message-ID: <199801152242.OAA04752@and.com>
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Thanks to all who offered help (correct and otherwise!). The solution was that I had to swap the Windows and FreeBSD DOS partitions (using Partition Magic) so FreeBSD was first. This then allowed me to create slices. I'm content with this solution, but I have a little more to discuss if anyone's interested. I had read many things about partition restrictions restricitons. In particular, I read that the FreeBSD DOS partition cannot be beyond 1024 cylinders from the MBR. This is the restriction I violated, as far as I know (my disk is 2GB, Win95 is 1.5GB and FreeBSD is .5GB). The issue is that my (logical?) disk geometry had less than 600 cylinders, so I didn't think I had to worry about the 1024 cyl restriction. I wouldn't be surprised if there were > 1024 physical cylinders and there probably are and it's probably the physical cylinder number that the restriction refers to. I don't believe I've encountered a tools which tells me the number of physical cylinders... Also, I read somewhere (the FreeBSD help docs I think) that Win95 had to be in the first partition (of the first disk). This clearly isn't the case. I have it in the second and it boots fine. Now I have a problem accessing my CDROM... -jonathan hahn > The problem is that when I try to create Unix partitions in the new > DOS partition, the install program refuses. If I try to create a > root file system of any size, I get: > > This region cannot be used for your root partition as the > FreeBSD boot code cannot deal with a root partition created > in that location. Please choose another partition or > smaller size for your root partition and try again!
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