From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 11:14:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27160 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from f45.hotmail.com (F45.hotmail.com [207.82.250.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27155 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by f45.hotmail.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16531; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708261813.LAA16531@f45.hotmail.com> Received: from 137.229.17.253 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:13:50 PDT X-Originating-IP: [137.229.17.253] From: "steve howe" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: large drive install Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:13:50 PDT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk please respond directly, as i'm not subscribed to the list. - i am have problems installing 2.2.2 on a 3.8G drive. i would appreciate any tips from someone that has done so. - wd0 W95 (0-62=MBR) (63-504M=W95) (plus a few sectors leftover) wd1 CD - drive 2 is a CDROM wd2 BSD (i allocate ALL the space for FreeBSD - all 3,8G). - i use the install defaults (/=32M, swap=~40M, /var=30M, /usr=3500M). the root is well below the 500M limit for an IDE. - from Alt-F4 during the install, i see everything is fine. also Alt-F2 show no problems during the install, other than 2 consecutive complaints about illegal characters after builing the superblocks (illegal character 0x34). - i Set the W95 and BSD partitions as bootable, and select and MBR for each. after rebooting, i can't boot F5 (wd2). ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com