Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 05:55:45 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au (Carey Nairn) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE disk > 500MB Message-ID: <199511070555.FAA03216@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951107151624.16910E-100000@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au> from "Carey Nairn" at Nov 7, 95 03:24:40 pm
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Carey Nairn stands accused of saying: > I have a 486DX33 with a 1.2GB Seagate drive which uses software to > translate the geometry so that DOS etc can use it. I have Win95, NT > workstation 3.51 installed and I would like to install FreeBSD on the > remaining 500MB. The problem is that if I hold down CTRL during boot to > boot from a floppy as instructed, the BSD boot disk doesn't want to > boot. If I boot with the floppy in the drive to start with, the FreeBSD > installer can't see the other two partitions (500MB FAT, 200MB NTFS), and > wants the whole disk. I searched the mail archives and found a reference > to a program called pfdisk (which I tried), but after setting the > geometry in the installation I still don't see the other partitions. > > can anyone help with this ? Which translation software are you using? It's highly likely that you won't be able to install FreeBSD in this situation, unfortunately. The basic problem is that the BIOS can't boot an operating system that is located beyond the 500M point. It's more complicated than that, of course, but that's the basis of the problem. > Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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