Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 23:54:37 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org, iang@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation query Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960509235219.25062R-100000@chain.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960508104459.5209A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Doug White wrote: > This is getting confusing... You're telling me. > That doesn't make any difference. But, if nothing else is going to be on > there, then you should be okay since your root partition will be WELL I think I can cut this whole story a lot shorter. I took the plunge, and killed the partitions, overlays, etc on both drives. I then fdisk'd the first drive as a dos partition (full partition) and installed freebsd not using entire disk and with boot manager. Machine booted, no boot manager and on dos partition. To cut a LOOOONG story short, I finally got the boot manager on the first drive and the entire second drive as a bsd disk. > below 500MB. I'm not 100% sure if FreeBSD can access the whole disk if > you take off the overlay, though. My sentiment is yes, it will work; but It does. > since a friend of mine had an 800MB IDE on a fbsd box and it didn't have > an overlay (but I was never around to watch it boot). But was it a old machine (i.e. pre e-ide) ? > OK, no problems there. Quite simple, actually. --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002
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