From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 18:15:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA27391 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA27378 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dt050n3f.san.rr.com [204.210.31.63]) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA14888; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:15:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <347A3477.58119716@dal.net> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:14:15 -0800 From: Studded X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-971111-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Cavalieri CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: HELP! Install problem with NT4.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.2/2.2.5 References: <01bcf939$06e16c60$ef641990@jcavalie-lap.us.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Cavalieri wrote: > I haven't received any responses to this problem from the usenet groups. My understanding is that freebsd-questions@freebsd.org will get you a response a lot faster. I almost never read the usenet group myself actually. [snip] > >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. You cannot create a FreeBSD partition (slice in FreeBSD-ese) within a DOS extended partition. You need to resize the extended partition so that the free space is truly free, and in its own DOS partition. As I understand it, you should also be sure that the FreeBSD slice is close enough to the beginning of the disk to allow you to put / (the root filesystem, approx. 32M) completely within the first 504 megs of hard disk. Therefore the first DOS partition should not be larger than 470 megs. I realize this kind of repartitioning is not a trivial task, but this is what needs to be done to get it going. Good luck, Doug