From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 23 0:37:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D8D37B424 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 00:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A8B27260268; Wed, 23 May 2001 00:37:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0B68B2.820AE32E@urx.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 00:37:22 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jasonla@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP References: <20010523071924.13410.qmail@web4601.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason La wrote: > > I have a question about triple booting with win98, win2k, > and freebsd. > > My relevant hardware specs: > Athlon 1GHz > Asus A7V motherboard w/ onboard Promise ATA/100 controllers > 40 GB Quantum ATA/100 HD > > I have the 40GB HD setup like this: > first: primary/5GB(win98/fat32) > second: primary/2BG (for BSD/unformatted) > third: logical/win2k(6GB/ntfs5) > fourth:logical/storage(whatever is left/ntfs) I have two systems setup like this. I also use the NTLDR to boot everything, > > When I try to install FreeBSD, it says that it can't > install the "/" filesystem in the partition that I made. I > know that there is something about hoe far into the hard > drive an OS can be installed, I just don't remember. The magic limit is 8.4GB and you are under that. It is something else that you did. The FreeBSD slice has to be created by fdisk and the easiest is the setup in sysinstall. After you create the partitions in the slice, you have to write them but that is automatically done for you. Look at http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/43/index.html Kent > > Can anyone help? > > ===== > -- Jason La > jasonla@pobox.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message