From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 17:53:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA11377 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:53:07 -0700 Received: from jupiter.avsi.com (jupiter.avsi.com [199.100.190.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11371 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:53:06 -0700 Received: from avsi.com (jupiter.avsi.com [199.100.190.6]) by jupiter.avsi.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA29613 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 20:54:06 -0400 Message-Id: <199506130054.UAA29613@jupiter.avsi.com> From: Allyn Hardyck To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: More basic questions Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 20:54:06 -0400 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to set up a DOS and FreeBSD partition on this disk. The FDISK that's on the boot floppy gives output like this: Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 6993 7055 wd0s3 1 unknown 18 7056 1022112 1029167 wd0s1 2 fat 6 1029168 3024 1032191 - 6 unused 0 1) Are the 4 entries the 4 "slices" of the diskspace FAQ? 2) It seems like entry 3 is the one I have to modify yet the docs say only "unused" entries are modifiable. Obviously I have to do something with the "fat" partition yet I'm not sure which of the slices holds the info that decides which partition is to be booted (and what program decides that? Is that already in slice 1 or do I have to install the prompting program somehow?) So I imagined the slices being: slice 1 prompting program slice 2 DOS slice 3 FreeBSD Which of the 4 slices above are to be the 3 I need? And which is(are) the one(s) I shouldn't touch under any circumstances? This wasn't an issue before since when I installed FreeBSD previously I used the whole disk. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Allyn Hardyck allynh@avsi.com