From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 17:55:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11877 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA11867 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:55:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA06149; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:57:11 -0700 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:57:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Steve Schwartz cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Up In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Steve Schwartz wrote: > > > I have a 486/75Mhz with > > > 8mb of ram. My brothers is a 486/66 8mb ram. I am confused what is > > > going on. I am going to upgrade my computer to a Pentium 150mhz 16mb ram > > > June 20th, but I want to install FreeBSD too much, and can't wait. I > > > think it would be neat to fool around with, and help me at my job. > > When I stuck the FreeBSD boot disk in my computer just froze. When I put > BSDI's boot disk in got the following message: > > Warning, CMOS geometry for C: is mapped, too many heads > Mapped Geometry: 63 sectors 64 heads 787 cylinders > Drive geometry: 63 sectors 16 heads 3148 cylinders The boot floppy can deal with this. > I have on my C: a 1.6 Western Digital with 3 partitions. A 900MB (Win95) > 250(Empty for Unix/Linux) and 350(NT4.0) Any way you roll it you are going to end up with an unbootable partition. All bootable partitions must be completely below 500MB or so. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major