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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: "Invalid partition table" error when creating more than one
 slice during install?
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> On 2003-08-10, at 15:29:32, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to get 5.1-R installed, but I've run into a problem I don't
> >> understand.  The disk layout I want should look like this:
> >>
> >> s1: 20gb, FreeBSD
> >> s2: 10gb, Windows
> >> s3: ~83gb (the rest of the disk), data
> >
> >with what tool are you creating s2 and s3?  It sounds like the last thing
> >that touches it is not creating a proper partition table and your BIOS is
> >unhappy.
>
> Sysinstall, as part of the installation process.

Hm. sysinstall is famously bad at making slice tables.  The usual solution
is to make the Windows partitions first using DOS FDISK on a zeroed disk
-- it can usually get the geometry right.

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