Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:11:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Shana Nielsen <shana@corp.gulf.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511150848.1378K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BD7CE5.11E92910@pickerel.corp.gulf.net>
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Wrap your lines, please. On Mon, 11 May 1998, Shana Nielsen wrote: > I've recently converted (at least partially) to FreeBSD. I'm running a > pen 133 with 48 Mb of RAM, and a 2.4 G hard drive, partitioned in half. > On half the partition resides NT Workstation 4.0. On the other half > resides FreeBSD. NT was installed first so FreeBSD's boot manager can > do its thing, and yet, it refuses to do the thingy. The boot manager > comes up on start up and sees both sides correctly NT as dos and BSD as > BSD...but I can only boot into the NT partition. Please elaborate. What happens if you select `BSD'? > When I created the FreeBSD slice I did set it bootable, and I've managed > to get BSD to run on this machine in the past (when it was the *other* > operating system that didn't want to run). The entire IDE drive is > formatted fat 16. This is contradictory. You created a FreeBSD slice, yet the whole thing is formatted FAT. FreeBSD requires it's own slice type and uses it's own filesystem. Please clarify. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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