Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:15:57 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: kevstanton@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your OS, questions Message-ID: <199802161415.IAA25108@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <19980214134258.40789@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 14, 98 01:42:58 pm"
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In a previous message, Greg Lehey said:
> On Fri, 13 February 1998 at 19:03:48 -0800, Kevin Stanton wrote:
> > To whom it may concern:
> >
> > Hello. I'm interested in learning UNIX, and someone told me
> > that your version of UNIX was free and a great OS to learn on. What I
> > was wondering is, I have a PII-300MHz, with 128 megs of ECC SDRAM. I
> > have an 8.4 gigabyte EIDE UltraATA harddrive, and it's partitioned into
> > a C: D: E: & F: drives. The E: drive is completely empty, and I was
> > wondering if I could run FreeBSD on that E: drive, and keep my C:, D: &
> > F: intact for Windows 95 B use.
>
> Almost. The trouble is that most PCs can only boot from the first two
> disks (this is a BIOS limitation, not a FreeBSD limitation). This
> would translate to the Microsoft partition C: or D:.
>
> I'd suggest that you move the contents of your Microsoft partion D: to
> E:, and install FreeBSD on D:. Hopefully they're close enough to the
> same size not to be a problem.
>
> Greg
I think he means that he has 2 BIOS partitions (primary and extended) and has
the extended partition split into 3 drives (D:, E: and F:).
And the answer is no, you can't put FreeBSD on your E: drive. FreeBSD must
be in its own BIOS partition. What you'd need to do is backup D: and F:,
and repartion so that you have:
1 DOS (C:)
2 FreeBSD
3 Extended DOS (D: and F: - will become D: and E:)
4 Unused
Paul.
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Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,
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