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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 12:59:19 -0800
From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
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You need to may need to repartition your drives to get them to work.  First,
backup *ALL* of your data.  Then use DOS's fdisk to remove all of the Logical
drives and the extended partition (FreeBSD needs its own entry in the partition
table.)

NOTE:  You do not need to remove the Primary partition.  (I assume you have
windows installed as c:\windows)

You should now be able to install FreeBSD and give it 2 GB of space, or
whatever, then boot back to dos and restore your Extended Partition and Logical
Drives.

Remember, FreeBSD needs to be installed within the first 1024 cylinders of your
hard drive.  Unfortunately, I do not know how to check that.

Eric Hodel
hodeleri@seattleu.edu

P.S. Please don't send HTML messages.

> Ralf Joling wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> I have a 8.4 GB drive split in 4 partitions with the drive letters C,D,E and
> F.
> The all accessible via Bill's stuff.
> They has been format with win98.
> I want to install freebsd version 2.2.5 on drive F.
> If start install I see not the 4 drives off 2 GB each in the partition editor.
> I see some strange numbers on 4 lines and 2 drive names (ide).
> Do I something wrong or is it not possible.
> Ralf Joling
>

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