From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 28 22:12:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F2916A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from atmail2.isisp.org (atmail2.isisp.org [65.196.201.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D931543D1D for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from russellm@ws-link.com) Received: from mercury.isisp.org ([65.196.200.27]) by atmail2.isisp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2T6f2Io024047 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:41:02 -0500 Received: from russ (1Cust230.tnt27.lax3.da.uu.net [67.219.47.230]) by mercury.isisp.org (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with SMTP id i2T6Ca900782 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:12:36 -0500 From: "Russell E. Mayfield" To: "freebsd-questions" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:12:23 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-SpamViper-Score: Mail scored 30 points DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12,RATWR19_MESSID,RCVD_IN_NJABL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP,RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Subject: Installation & fdisk partitioning (slices) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:12:42 -0000 I picked up a copy of the "FreeBSD Handbook 2nd Ed" the other day, it came with a installation disk for version 5.1 Current and that is what I am trying to install. This is my first attempt to do anything with FreeBSD. First let me describe my system, I have a pentium 200 MMX cpu with 128MB Ram and two 20GB hard drives (ad0 & ad2). I am installing FreeBSD to ad2s2. I made room for fbsd with Partition Magic so when installing fbsd all I had to do was make it bootable and format it. The first time I installed fbsd everything went well but I remember wondering about the C flag that came up with the A flag when I made the slice bootable. Later I decided on a better way to arrange my partitions, so I had to reinstall fbsd. I tried for 4 days to get that C flag back in there (which the online help says is the default) and couldn't. When ever I went ahead wihtout the C flag it made the disk unusable to anything except fbsd, also in the disklabel program the d partition was skiped the first time, which the handbook cautions about using, but without the C flag I had to make a fake partition then delete it to get ride of it. Finaly I decided to live dangerously an I changed the geometry of the drive to match the bios figures. It seems to work, but I haven't gotten into it very deep. Can somebody shed some light on this, and should I make out a bug report? Thanks Russ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.614 / Virus Database: 393 - Release Date: 3/5/04