From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jan 23 19:20:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7C114F13; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com ident=200 years too late) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 12Ca36-0007WU-00; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:20:17 -0700 Message-ID: <388BC605.FAF0479D@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:24:53 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marwan Fayed Cc: Thierry Herbelot , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disappearing mount points after install References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marwan Fayed wrote: > > As Thierry (and one other I think) suggested, a DOS partition is required. > Before this was suggested to me I tried dual booting with a small DOS > partition of 2 megs to save as much space as possible. This didn't work. > Well, last night a chain of events forced me to realize that Win95, of > course, uses partitions greater than 2 megs and that I should try using > larger partitions (Thierry uses 20 on his machine). > > I first tried it with 5 megs... nothing. Then 10, 16, and still nothing. > Finally when I expanded the DOS partition to 20 megs it worked. I can only > assume this is how IBM manufactured their BIOS. And hey, it's 20 megs lost > but at least it worked. OK, let's quickly hack the VM system to allow swapping on a DOS partition. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message