Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:35:44 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: <kstewart@urx.com>, <jasonla@pobox.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP Message-ID: <007501c0e363$6420c2f0$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <20010523071924.13410.qmail@web4601.mail.yahoo.com> <3B0B68B2.820AE32E@urx.com>
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completely separate drives & those cradles that let you switch off a drive make things infinitely more straightforward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@urx.com> To: <jasonla@pobox.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 5:37 PM Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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