From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 7:36:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiaat.unisa.ac.za (kiaat.unisa.ac.za [163.200.97.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECBE37B9E7 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from braunm@kiaat.unisa.ac.za) Received: from localhost (braunm@localhost) by kiaat.unisa.ac.za (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA21024 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:36:14 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:36:14 +0200 (USAST) From: Dr M Braun To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation troubles on Pentium II Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear FreeBSD users I have a very strange problem when installing FreeBSD4.0 the installation seems to detect my 13 GB harddrive when booting up. However the fdisk like partition editor only sees two large slices both of them marked used, whose sizes seem to have no relation whatsoever with the partition table under linux, which is the OS already present on the driver I enclose the partition table as put out by cfdisk in the following Partition Table for /dev/hda ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- --------- 1 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 38 63 626472 2 0x00 0 1 857 0x05 254 63 1023 13767705 9221310 3 0x00 0 1 39 0x83 254 63 856 626535 13141170 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 5 0x00 1 1 857 0x83 254 63 917 63 979902 6 0x00 1 1 918 0x83 254 63 956 63 626472 7 0x00 1 1 957 0x82 254 63 990 63 546147 8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 4096512 I did however manage to install FreeBSD on an virtual VMware disk so the CDRom should be OK regards and thanks a lot for any help in advance Moritz Dr Moritz Braun Tel.: 27-12-4298006/8714/8027 Physics Department Fax.: 27-12-4293643 University of South Africa (UNISA) braunm@kiaat.unisa.ac.za P.O. Box 392 0003 Pretoria South Africa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message