Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:50:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alex Balk <ALEX.L.BALK@cpmx.saic.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk partitions Message-ID: <19981219125002.A24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <A1F6977C83D1D111BB7C006008A741D004231B@US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>; from Balk, Alex on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 05:52:08PM -0800 References: <A1F6977C83D1D111BB7C006008A741D004231B@US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 17:52:08 -0800, Balk, Alex wrote: > Trying to install FreeBSD. Booted from the floppy, tried to create a > partition for FreeBSD with the fdisk partition program. Don't want to wipe > out Windows. Fdisk does not have a clue how big the hard drive is -- it > only sees about 40% of the 1.6 GB drive. It won't let me create a partition > for FreeBSD thats has size other than 0. Do I have to change the Disk > Geometry? Is there a reference to help me do this? > -any help is appreciated Not understanding completely. Read message. Found no details. Can't help based on input. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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