Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:16:58 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: Joris Verboomen <joris.verboomen@glo.be>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <19980106031658.24303.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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1. Are you installing onto an extended or primary partition? It has to be primary. 2. Dunno if DMA support is there yet. If noone answers here ask this question on freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 3. Converting FAT32 to FAT16 was a necessary step. So you are one step closer :-) Rudy ---Joris Verboomen <joris.verboomen@glo.be> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Some time ago I tried to install FreeBSD but failed to do so. It did > not recognize the free space om my hard disk (reduced the size of the > DOS primary partition using PartitionMagic leaving 900 MB of free > space). I thought it was because one of my logical drives in the DOS > extended partition was FAT32. However, I also used PartitionMagic to > convert my FAT32 into FAT16 and tried again to install FreeBSD. Same > result! > > My PC has a Promise Technology Inc. ULTRA33 IDE controller. Could this > be the cause of the problems ? I know for sure that it prevents me from > installing Linux (confirmed by Red Hat and Promise Technology). > > Regards, Joris. > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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