From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 01:46:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19017 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 01:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.CS.NMSU.Edu (cs.CS.NMSU.Edu [128.123.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA18965 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 01:46:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fzhang@nmsu.edu) Received: from nmsu.NMSU.Edu (analog-ts3-2.NMSU.Edu [128.123.62.38]) by cs.CS.NMSU.Edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id CAA12230; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 02:45:59 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <34BC895A.6BC7@nmsu.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 02:46:03 -0700 From: fujie zhang Reply-To: fzhang@nmsu.edu Organization: nmsu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: hard disk partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk i am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 from a DOS partition onto a AMD K6 200 MHz based PC with a 3.2 GB EIDE hard disk. my hard disk had originally 3 partitions - 2 DOS FAT primary partitions and an extended DOS partition. i booted my PC with a prepared FreeBSD boot floppy disk. then i deleted the extended partition and created the FreeBSD partition in its place. i also changed one of the DOS FAT partitions to an extended one as FreeBSD dos not allow 2 FAT partitions. however, the installation did go through. at the installation menu there are three options - first automatic probing and install, second visual mode configuration and last text mode configuration. when i used either of the configuration mode, after configuration the computer HUNG. I could preceed with the non-configuration option to as far as partition and set up the file system allocations. it would not then go any further. Right now i could not even repartition my hard disk within the MS-DOS mode. "fdisk" did not work. the computer simply hung right after i typed in "fdisk". i tried to change the hard disk modes - LBA, large and Normal. only under "Normal" did "fdisk" work. however, only 504 MB of the hard disk could be accessed. i can still boot my computer into windows 95. but only one of the 3 original partitions are accessible. ANYBODY WITH EXPERTISE IN AREA PLEASE HELP ME WITH ADVICES ON HOW TO RESTORE THE HARD DISK AND INSTALL FREEBSD. YOUR HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR READING THIS AND POSSIBLE HELP.