Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:17:51 -0400 (EDT) From: The Lab <thelab@nmarcom.com> To: CHARL <croftonc@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917101145.13146D-100000@feoh.nmarcom.com> In-Reply-To: <199809170743.JAA25599@wcpes.x-link.ml.org>
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, CHARL wrote: > Hi there folks..... > > OK.....now for some serious monkey business. I have a 1,2 gig IDE drive > that needs to be partitioned for dos + win95 (unfortunete me) and BSD. My > bios supprorts 1024 sectors and not more. Now.....this is where I need help. > How do I go about this? > > THNX!!!!!! > This may not be the _best_ answer, but this is what i did once with good results... Back up any data you want from the hard drive, set the parameters in the BIOS for the hard drive as they are, grab your freebsd boot floppy, make 4 partitions... (or 3)... 1-40Mb BSD (bootable) 1- <=480Mb DOS (bootable) and then divide the rest of the space into however much more DOS/FreeBSD space you want (with the emphasis on FreeBSD) Make the first BSD slice / and put /var, /usr, and whatever else on the other BSD slice. This should bypass the BIOS boot problem. -Mit ================================================================ Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Systems Administrator/Programmer Project Co-Ordinator Neray MarCom, Inc. The Dreaming Network 25 Imperial Street, Suite 210 Box #9, 553 Church Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5P 1B9 M4Y 2E3 v:(416)481-5405 e:thelab@nmarcom.com f:(416)481-3741 ICQ: 7161728 Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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