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To: Murali gottumukkala <g_mmr99@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: reagarding the installation of freebsd
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Murali gottumukkala schrieb:
> 
> hi,
>   i have been trying to install the freebsd 4.3 and
> let me explain about my system i have 40 gb of disk
> space and i reserved 30 gb for windows and 10gb for
> freeebsd.
>  i have made 3 slices and i have installed file system
> on 1 slice and swap on another slice and i have
> installed all the additional packages and i have also
> insatlled boot manager and i have even created user
> accounts and when i log out and restart i get the
> prompt
> saying f1 dos and f2f3f4 are freebsd and then when i
> press either f2 or f3 or f4 it gives invalid
> partition. so please guide me what to do,mail me back
> soon
> raju

PC hardware can only boot partitions located within the first GB of your
hard disk. A working scheme is

slice1: 256MB FreeBSD root
slice2: 4GB Windows C: drive
slice3: 4GB FreeBSD /usr, /var, /tmp
slice4: extended Windows drive D:,  more extended partitions can be
trown in here, too.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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