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From: "Mike G." <mikegoe@ibm.net>
To: "Damen Cole" <klink@4u.net>,
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 22:54:26 
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:22:48 -0600, Damen Cole wrote:

>Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD Release 2.2 
>I am trying to put the FreeBSD stuff on my 3rd hard drive (all hard drives
>exceed 1024 cylinders - but i have a translating BIOS so, hopefully it
>won't matter)
>and I managed to install the boot manager on the 1st drive (running windows
>'95) - i've got the boot manager to work - except it only gives me the
>option to boot to  DOS i.e. F1
>
>I *think* I installed the UNIX binaries correctly to the 3rd drive (i can't
>be sure - because I can't boot onto it) - If there is no obvioius solution
>to my 1st problem - is it possible to create a FreeBSD 1.44mb bootdiskette
>that I could create and use that instead?

Being on a third drive should not matter...you do, however,
need to make sure you marked the third drive as *bootable*...
also....even though FreeBSD can use EIDE drives, the entire
root dir must be below the 1024 limit.

Michael G.

                   

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