From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 4 18:09:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA07105 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 18:09:05 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA07099 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 18:09:04 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA01808; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 18:08:28 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot install problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jan 95 14:15:16 MST." <9501042115.AA10384@borris.khoros.unm.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 18:08:28 -0800 Message-ID: <1807.789271708@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > A friend of mine has gone through the install on a < 1GB drive, and > all this stuff just worked for him, so I'm thinking it has something > to do with the fact the partion layout stuff just doesn't work on > a hd that is too big. Has anyone that is using a > 1GB disk > gotten this multiboot thingy to work? You can enable the translation, just install DOS first, run the supplied pfdisk utility to verify the translation scheme that DOS is using, then install FreeBSD and use the (G)eometry option to specify this translated geometry. Piece of cake.. Jordan