From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 4 15:19:19 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA10262 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 15:19:19 -0700 Received: from cioccolato.tinet.ch (cioccolato.tinet.ch [194.29.0.17]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA10253 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 15:19:15 -0700 Received: by cioccolato.tinet.ch (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27881; Mon, 5 Jun 95 00:19:07 +0200 Message-Id: <9506042219.AA27881@cioccolato.tinet.ch> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 95 00:05:57 EDT From: gmoravszky@tinet.ch (Gy. Moravszky) Reply-To: gmoravszky@tinet.ch (Gy. Moravszky) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: PMMail (v1.05 UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE) Subject: Extra HDD space ??? Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an Adaptec 2842 VLS SCSI adapter with a Quantum Empire 2000S attached to it. I run DOS and OS/2 from the same disk and have to leave the translation enabled. Was trying to install (for the first time) FreeBSD 2.0.5 alpha with the 03/06/95 patch. The partitioning program, determed the correct geometry: 255/255/63 but found the drive to be bigger than the multiplude of the above. As i have no resources to backup 1.5 gigs, i decided not to experiment furver and instead made an extra partition in OS/2, resulting: - OS/2 Boot Manager - 1 gig DOS partition (dos primary) - .5 gig OS/2 partition (dos extended, HPFS) - .5 gig empty (i wanted to use this one for FreeBSD) This is the screen of the partitioning program: BIOS geometry: 255cyls/255heads/63sectors Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 16002 16064 sd0s3 1 unknown 10 16065 2056320 2072384 sd0s2 2 fat 6 2072385 1012095 3084479 sd0s1 4 extended 5 3084480 1012095 4096574 ds0s4 1 unknown 22 4096575 12025 4108599 - 6 unused 0 So these extra 12025 are what scared me off. I tryed to boot the april snapshot of 2.0 and the fdisk program did not find this extra space. Is this a bug or it's safe to alocate this extra space and go on with the instalation? Thanks, Gyorgy Moravszky