Date: 27 Sep 1997 13:28:53 +0800 From: ludwigp@sns.com (Ludwig Pummer) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Windows on 5 GB drive (was: question) Message-ID: <60i5il$ppi$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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At 09:27 AM 9/27/97 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 07:22:59AM -0500, Gavin Buffington wrote: >> I'm not sure where to send this question if this reaches the wrong >> person could you please tell me who to send this to? >> Here is my question: I recently got a new machine, pentium II 266 >> etc... with a 5 GB hard drive. It was (and still) is my intention >> to split the hard drive roughly in half and run win95 (yuk) on one >> half and freeBSD on the other. Here is the problem: when I run the >> freeBSD repartitioning utility FIPS it bombs. I'm assuming because >> I am running have a 32bit filesystem such that win95 can deal with >> the 5GB drive. Do you have any suggestions on how I can work around >> this? > >Somewhere, hidden in all the menus, Win 95% gives you the option of >using only half the disk. Install like that, then install FreeBSD on >the rest. Before you go too far down that road, you should check that >you can boot from the second (FreeBSD) partition. Older BIOSes can >only boot from the first 504 MB. > >Greg Being a new computer, he most likely got Win95 OSR2 or OSR2.1 (2.1 has USB support). They both have the (incompatible with FAT16) FAT32 file system and computer manufacturers are supposed to install using the FAT32 option. Unless FIPS can handle FAT32, you'll have to use PartitionMagic (with all the latest bug fixes). --Ludwig Pummer ------------------------------------------------------------------ ludwigp@bigfoot.com ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page ^-- Updated 07/01/97
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