Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:47:56 -0800 From: "Thom Crandall" <ourwayin@clipper.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.0 with WinME Message-ID: <000f01c09580$84d9e980$252274d8@1p8sb01>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, I am a new user to WinME and want to install FreeBSD 4.0 (from Greg Lehey's 3rd edition CD's). Currently I only have one 20Gb (not SCSI L) hd and only one partition (Pri DOS @ FAT32). I'd like to install FreeBSD onto another hd (I have an Adaptec 2940U I'd like to use . . .), but what I have been reading says I can not boot FreeBSD from partitions beyond cylinder 1023 (<8Gb). Ok, then I need to partition my existing hd, say into two partitions (only using <5Gb for WinME after cleanup and defrag). FIPS does not seem to want to partition my WinME partition (or can I just create a DOS logical ext partition??) and Partition Magic seems risky (according to some USENET messages lately). Any ideas? If so, the right steps to accomplish this would be helpful (I'd rather not reinstall WinME again! if I can help it). Thanks in advance. Thom [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>Hello, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am a new user to WinME and want to install FreeBSD 4.0 (from Greg Lehey's 3rd edition CD's). Currently I only have one 20Gb (not SCSI <FONT face=Wingdings>L</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">) hd and only one partition (Pri DOS @ FAT32). I'd like to install FreeBSD onto another hd (I have an Adaptec 2940U I'd like to use . . .), but what I have been reading says I can not boot FreeBSD from partitions beyond cylinder 1023 (<8Gb). Ok, then I need to partition my existing hd, say into two partitions (only using <5Gb for WinME after cleanup and defrag). FIPS does not seem to want to partition my WinME partition (or can I just create a DOS logical ext partition??) and Partition Magic seems risky (according to some USENET messages lately). Any ideas? If so, the right steps to accomplish this would be helpful (I'd rather not reinstall WinME again! if I can help it).</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thom</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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