From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:22: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maskin.ettnet.se (maskin.oden.se [193.220.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844841566F for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:22:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tw@ettnet.se) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by maskin.ettnet.se (8.9.1a/8.8.8) id XAA03290 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 23:21:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.220.122.50), claiming to be "tw.oden.se" via SMTP by maskin, id smtpdAAAa000nJ; Mon May 17 23:21:01 1999 From: Thomas Widlundh Reply-To: tw@ettnet.se To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re:fips for large disks Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:15:55 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99051723171901.00970@tw.oden.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Narana Kannappan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have win98 installed on a 8GB hard-drive. > > I wanted to repartition it so that I could > > put the freeBSD root partion in that. > > > > I used the 'fips' program that came with the > > 2.2 CDROM. But I got an error which said something > > like "..end cylinder head 254 invalid" and it quit. > > > > Am I using an old version of fips that doesnt partition > > large disks ? Why don't You use fdisk in a DOS-window in Win98 to do the very first base partions? It will work with large disks? Make an extended partition of xMB and then a logical of the very same xMB and in the same place (the logical is part of the extended). This worked to me. Then, of course, You will have to use the BSD fdisk during installation to slice. Thomas -- *********************** KMail 1.0.17 Caldera Open Linux 2.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message