From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 02:33:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA14130 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA14118 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA00707; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:01:16 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970927190116.02685@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:01:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: Gavin Buffington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Windows on 5 GB drive (was: question) References: <199709261223.HAA03094@scatcat.fhsu.edu> <199709261223.HAA03094@scatcat.fhsu.edu> <19970927092741.26523@lemis.com> <3.0.3.32.19970926221410.030b16c8@mail.sns.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970926221410.030b16c8@mail.sns.com>; from Ludwig Pummer on Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:14:10PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:14:10PM -0700, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > 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). Yes, I know most machines are installed that way. I'm assuming he has a CD-ROM and is prepared to re-install the system. If it's new, I'd say that this method (once he gets it to work) is safer than FIPS, and probably also safer than PartitionMagic. Greg