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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 23:11:40 +0100
From: Joris Verboomen <joris.verboomen@glo.be>
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Dear all,

Some time ago I tried to install FreeBSD but failed to do so.  It did
not recognize the free space om my hard disk (reduced the size of the
DOS primary partition using PartitionMagic leaving 900 MB of free
space).  I thought it was because one of my logical drives in the DOS
extended partition was FAT32.  However, I also used PartitionMagic to
convert my FAT32 into FAT16 and tried again to install FreeBSD.  Same
result!

My PC has a Promise Technology Inc. ULTRA33 IDE controller.  Could this
be the cause of the problems ?  I know for sure that it prevents me from
installing Linux (confirmed by Red Hat and Promise Technology).

Regards, Joris.