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Subject: Re: Triple booting -- HELP
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:35:44 +1000
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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
> >
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