From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 10:33:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vax.hanford.org (vax.hanford.org [216.218.218.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC78237B40A for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1731 invoked by uid 1877); 26 Sep 2001 17:33:28 -0000 Date: 26 Sep 2001 17:33:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20010926173328.1730.qmail@vax.hanford.org> From: bob@area.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: question from a linux newbie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have a 6.4Gb Quantum bigfoot CY type drive that has RedHat 2.0 on it and I had planned to reformat it to use half of it for Windoz98 and half for Freebsd - so far so good, however the microsloth tool 'fdisk' sez 'no disk present' Thats krazie, the disk works for linux but windoz can't even see it! Is there any hope of fixing this? Alzo, the system I'm playing with has a HP9100 type CD ROM dirve and my original RedHat 2.0 boot CD will boot on this machine, but the FREEBSD (disk dated Nov2000 ) will not boot .... gremlinz or? ... is it bad black magic? what could be going on here? Please enlighten me & Thanks B0b To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message