Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:47:35 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Subject: Re: Horror story Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990312193730.24156A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <36E9D60C.F26F86EE@uswest.net>
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Nocturne wrote: > On March 12, 1999 @ 18:42:05 (-0600), "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > >Yesterday I received my new 10.2 Gig hard drive. I ordered it because I was > >running FreeBSD on a 60 Meg slice I cut out of my Windows disk. > > > >Well, my BIOS CMOS would not accept 10.2 Gig. I called the manufacturer's > >tech support, and explained I needed a @ Gig slice for Windows, and the > >rest for FreeBSD. "For what?" Unix, you know, FreeBSD. > > > >"Oh, no problem, you need Ontrack Disk Manager. That will let you do that. > >Download it from our web site." > > > >I did as advised. It turned out Disk Manager is a brain dead piece of > >software. It partitioned the disk into 5 2 Gig partitions, and OVEROTE my > >MBR!!! Form then on, I was unable to log back on to my small FreeBSD system. I suggest that you start from scratch. fdisk the drive. Make the first partition 900 meg for dos C:, second partition 100 meg for FreeBSD /, and the third partition as large as your BIOS will create for dos D:, the remaining space will be for FreeBSD. If the third partition eats up too much space with the large as possible option (didn't leave enough for FBSD) create it manually at some appropriate size. Install windows but no extra programs. Install FreeBSD Choose the second partition and put / on it Choose the fourth partition and put /usr and /var on it. When you go back to windows get in the habit of installing everything on drive D:. C: will fill up as programs happily ignore you and install stuff in c:/windows even though you told them to use D: Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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