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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 20:38:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brian Lofton <lofton@okstate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing freeBSD 2.2.6-release
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505203737.9802F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <354F73EC.D67BEA14@okstate.edu>

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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Brian Lofton wrote:

> howdy,
> 
> I am trying to install BSD 2.2.6-release on my 6.4 gig ATA Promise
> series hard drive.  I used 'fips' to split my primary partition in two,
> because leaving space on an extended partition wasn't cutting it.  When
> using a boot disk to start the installation, everything appears to go
> smoothly, until the 'fdisk editor' screen comes up, and it is trying to
> partition my IDE Zip(wd2), instead of my harddisk.  My primary partition
> split is FAT16, if that is the problem, then how do I change it to FAT.

FAT == FAT16

You should have a menu just before you get to the fdisk editor allowing
you to select which disk to operate on.  YOu might check the ALT-F2 debug
screen and make sure your IDE disk is being found.  The latest glut of
Promise controllers don't appear to be IDE-standard-friendly.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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