Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:48:21 -0400 From: "Andre` Niel Cameron" <AndreC@Axxs.net> To: <bob@area.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question from a linux newbie Message-ID: <06ce01c146b3$6f1e6dc0$a50410ac@olmct.net> References: <20010926173328.1730.qmail@vax.hanford.org>
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Hi, 1)Windows needs a dos pertition before it can see the drive. Thats why you are having problems with windows. 2)Test the CD in another drive. Make sure its bootable. Regards, Andre` C. Technical Support ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Visit our support manual at http://supportmanual.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <bob@area.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: question from a linux newbie > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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