Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 23:10:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: Yaning Wang <yaning@shell.dave-world.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some sucessful stories Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970516225336.319D-100000@kevin.sunshine.net> In-Reply-To: <199705170317.WAA28704@shell.dave-world.net>
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Hi, Here's something I wish I would have read prior to my last install. --- If you just want to use the disk with FreeBSD you don't need a disk manager. Just configure the disk for as much space as the BIOS can deal with (usually 504 megabytes), and FreeBSD should figure out how much space you really have. If you're using an old disk with an MFM controller, you may need to explicitly tell FreeBSD how many cylinders to use. If you want to use the disk with FreeBSD and another operating system, you may be able to do without a disk manager: just make sure the the FreeBSD boot partition and the slice for the other operating system are in the first 1024 cylinders. FreeBSD FAQ's 2.13 But before going anywhere with this I recommend that you read the documentation on Multi OS at: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html On Fri, 16 May 1997, Yaning Wang wrote: >My case: >Packard Bell Legend 100CD >HD1 Western Digital 2.5G, control by EZ drive >HD2 Seagate 420M >CDROM Matshita CDROM/Panasonic Drive CR-563(connect with a sound card) > >I have to use EZ drive on HD1 in order to utilize the full capacity >of the disk. However, FreeBSD does not like it. It not only does not >install on that disk, but also messes up Windows 95 on that disk. >The only way I succeeded so far is: to divid HD2 into two part(40M:370M) >and use the first part (DOS partition) to install FreeBSD into the second >part. This is because FreeBSD does not recognize my CDROM. The installation >is little use to me since nothing esle I can install.(can not use CDROM) >Worse of all, I can not put BootMgr in HD1 (otherwise, Win95 will not boot. >I guess this is caused by EZ Drive), and HD2 has to be slave (otherwise, >Win95 on HD1 will not boot neither). Therefore, I simply can not select >the OS I want when machine boots. Now, I selectively disconnect HD1 or HD2 >to choose either Win95 or FreeBSD :-( >(I tried to make HD2 as master. But its DOS partition is too small to >install Win95, and HD1 (as slave) has trouble to load EZ Drive) _______________________________________ |\ /| | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | My manhood shouldn't be | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | measured by the length | /^\_________________________/^\ | of my run on sentences. | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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