From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 06:17:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05422 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 06:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05410 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 06:17:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA25108; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:15:58 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199802161415.IAA25108@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Your OS, questions To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:15:57 -0600 (CST) Cc: kevstanton@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980214134258.40789@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 14, 98 01:42:58 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- I would not spend another such a night Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days, So full of dismal terror was the time! William Shakespaere; King Richard III To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message