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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:28:18 -0800
From:      "Jim Cavalieri" <jcavalie@wco.com>
To:        <freebsd-install@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Fw: HELP!  Install problem with NT4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.2/2.2.5
Message-ID:  <01bcf939$06e16c60$ef641990@jcavalie-lap.us.oracle.com>

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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 <jcavalie@us.oracle.com>
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
>
>
>





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