From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 13:34:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from okstate.edu (email.okstate.edu [139.78.119.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA00765 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:33:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lofton@okstate.edu) Received: from [206.41.133.67] by email.okstate.edu id ab83566; 5 May 98 15:19 CDT Message-ID: <354F73EC.D67BEA14@okstate.edu> Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:17:50 -0500 From: Brian Lofton Organization: Oklahoma State University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installing freeBSD 2.2.6-release Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------82666262AE46267A21CB2AF1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------82666262AE46267A21CB2AF1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit howdy, I am trying to install BSD 2.2.6-release on my 6.4 gig ATA Promise series hard drive. I used 'fips' to split my primary partition in two, because leaving space on an extended partition wasn't cutting it. When using a boot disk to start the installation, everything appears to go smoothly, until the 'fdisk editor' screen comes up, and it is trying to partition my IDE Zip(wd2), instead of my harddisk. My primary partition split is FAT16, if that is the problem, then how do I change it to FAT. Brian Lofton lofton_osu@osu.net --------------82666262AE46267A21CB2AF1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit howdy,

I am trying to install BSD 2.2.6-release on my 6.4 gig ATA Promise series hard drive.  I used 'fips' to split my primary partition in two, because leaving space on an extended partition wasn't cutting it.  When using a boot disk to start the installation, everything appears to go smoothly, until the 'fdisk editor' screen comes up, and it is trying to partition my IDE Zip(wd2), instead of my harddisk.  My primary partition split is FAT16, if that is the problem, then how do I change it to FAT.

Brian Lofton
lofton_osu@osu.net
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