From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 16:30:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19753 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from shell.wco.com (root@shell.wco.com [199.4.94.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19739 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcavalie@wco.com) Received: from jcavalie-lap (carina28.wco.com [209.21.28.28]) by shell.wco.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/WCO-18jul97) with SMTP id QAA10787 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:30:15 -0800 (PST) From: "Jim Cavalieri" To: Subject: Fw: HELP! Install problem with NT4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.2/2.2.5 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:28:18 -0800 Message-ID: <01bcf939$06e16c60$ef641990@jcavalie-lap.us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi - I haven't received any responses to this problem from the usenet groups. Can anyone here please help me out?! I'm really at a loss, and I need to get this working. Thanks very much! Jim -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cavalieri Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.questions,local.freebsd.questions,mailing.freebsd.stable Date: Friday, November 21, 1997 4:54 PM Subject: HELP! Install problem with NT4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.2/2.2.5 >Hi - >I have been scouring the FAQ and the email archives, but I can't find the >answer to this configuration problem. >I have a 5.1 GB hard drive, fdisk'd as follows: >1. Primary Partition 20MB > contains C:\ formatted to DOS (all 20MB) >2. Extended Partition ~5 GB > contains D:\ logical drive formatted to NTFS (3GB) > contains 2GB of free space in the extended partition >I boot from the FreeBSD 2.2.5 install floppy and choose to create a slice in >the free space. The installer shows me the "unused" portion of the disk, >which I hi-lite, it asks the size, and then it asks the type - which I >choose freebsd. Suspiciously, it doesn't change the type on the >screen...and this is the crux of the problem. >The information doesn't take. When I get to the next screen where I get to >partition the FreeBSD slice, I can't see it. I only see the primary DOS >partition. >Can anyone shed some light on this? >Thanks very much in advance. >Jim > > >