From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 22:06:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA04666 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:06:36 -0800 Received: from tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (cp_nairn@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA04658 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 22:06:16 -0800 Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id RAA02021; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:05:54 +1100 (DST) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:05:53 +1100 (DST) From: Carey Nairn To: Michael Smith cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE disk > 500MB In-Reply-To: <199511070555.FAA03216@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > 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. The translation software is the EZ software supplied with the drive. > > 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! [[ > ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================