From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 24 1: 8: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA25437B405 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:07:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5O87sl90083; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , Subject: RE: Major install confusion Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:07:53 -0700 Message-ID: <001f01c0fc84$c4c98e40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <002301c0fc11$a092e940$ec270f41@rocky1.ct.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org When you boot from the install CD your going to the same place that the floppies would take you. If you had booted from the floppies then you would see the same oddness with FDISK. What I recommend you do is create a bootable Win98 CD then copy over the \windows\command\fdisk.exe and \windows\command\format.exe programs. Then download the IDE "low-level" utility from Maxtor. Then reboot your system with the bootable win98 floppy and run the maxtor utility to clear everything off your hard disk, including all partition information. Next, reboot with the win98 bootable floppy and run fdisk, go to create the primary DOS partition, and when it says "do you want to use the entire disk" say NO then put in however many gigs you want to devote to win98. (you may have to turn on large partition support but if you are OK with only 2GB to win98 then don't. Then set the partition active and exit fdisk and reboot to the win98 floppy again. Then run format c: (not format c: /s) and create a DOS/win98 partition. Then boot from your win98 install CD and install win98 on the C: drive. When that's done then boot from the FreeBSD install CD and in the FDISK screen you should now see the rest of the empty space that you can select to create the FreeBSD partition on. By the way, you didn't say how big your disk was, or how old your HP was, but keep aware that older PC's BIOS's couldn't deal with IDE disks larger than 8GB. Windows put a fix in there for that which let's it get around this but of course it only works if the only thing you have is Windows on the system. You may want to check the HP website to see if there is a firmware upgrade for your system's BIOS if indeed it does have this problem. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rod Whittlesey >Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 11:24 AM >To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Major install confusion > > >Hi. > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a Maxtor drive that >has Windows 98 on >it already. I went out and bought Partition Commander after I somehow wiped >out my hard drive the first time I tried to install. When I start >the pc, an >HP 233 mhz I get a screen asking which partition I want to boot from. Fine, >this is what I want, the new FreeBSD partition was created. > > When I boot with the install CD, sysinstall automatically >starts and I can >get to into the FDISK partition editor but my new partition >doesn't show up. >There is what looks like almost the entire disk, and then a 9 meg >slice that >doesn't correspond to the 3 gig slice I had set up with Partition >Commander. > > In The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey there are other >options, but I am >being check-mated on all of them. My 1.44M floppies all say they can hold >1,457,664 bytes but BOOT.FLP and KERN.FLP are each 1,474,560 bytes >(20k more >than the floppies), so I can't copy them. I tried RAWRITE too but >it gets to >a certain point and says something about a bad sector (Scandisk says there >are no bad sectors). I think it really ran out of space. > > There are references to INSTALL.EXE and VIEW.EXE that could >be run from a >Microsoft partition. They're supposed to be on the install CD but don't >exist. (pages 29 and 69). > > Has anybody run into any of these problems? Where would I find the >Install.exe and/or view.exe files? > >Thanks for any help you can give. > >Rod > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message