From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 17:26:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC2437B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA44920; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:50 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:25:50 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Greg Lehey Cc: Hugh LaMaster , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disk partitioning on laptops (was: Making boot floppies (was: BSD Powerpak 4.0)) Message-ID: <20000829112549.E19388@albury.net.au> References: <20000827110935.D90379@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000829093547.C10992@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000829093547.C10992@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:35:47AM +0930 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com): > On Monday, 28 August 2000 at 9:47:52 -0700, Hugh LaMaster wrote: > > > > Just an aside: for some reason, I haven't been able to use the > > bootfloppy sysinstall partition label program to label (let alone newfs) > > a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop that I have. It has a 6 GB drive; > > the first 3 GB is a FAT32 partition. I have tried repeatedly > > to label/newfs the next partition, which is most of the next 3 GB, > > with a FreeBSD partition, to no avail. I assume that it is a BIOS > > problem. I've never had this problem before, but then, I never > > tried to use FreeBSD on a laptop before. Is there a known problem > > with the Inspiron 3500? I userstand that I will also have a problem > > with the PCMCIA card controller/cards/IRQ's later; I just wish that > > I could get to that point and experience those problems. > > I haven't heard of this before. I have an Inspiron 7500 myself, and I > had no trouble installing FreeBSD on it, though there are some This is strange. I use a 3500 here with a 4.8Gb drive. The first 1.5Gb is a FAT32 partition, the rest being FreeBSD. I've had no disklabel problems whatsoever. A colleague uses a 7000 with a ~10Gb drive with 4 operating systems and no problems, also. You shouldn't have problems with the PCMCIA controller, either; it's worked fine for me since at least 3.2-RELEASE. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message