From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 18 18:20:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08696 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:20:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08681 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:20:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA18944; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:50:03 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA24137; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:50:02 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981219125002.A24125@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 12:50:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alex Balk , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk partitions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Balk, Alex on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 05:52:08PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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