From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 15:06:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA24858 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24764 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00604; Thu, 9 May 1996 23:54:37 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 23:54:37 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org, iang@iafrica.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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