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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PCFS ( was Re: FREE BSD) Date: 9 Jul 1994 21:12:43 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2vn3sb$s0j@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <CsC8n3.1Kv@suncd.abc.se> <2vctk8$sn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2vfbe5$52f@steele.ohsu.edu> <2vh3dn$c9v@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu In article <2vh3dn$c9v@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <2vfbe5$52f@steele.ohsu.edu>, > >When you first installed FreeBSD, one of the questions was 'Do you want >to have access to your DOS partition?'. At this point FreeBSD would have >correctly setup a disklabel to 'Do The Right Thing'. Modifying the disklabel >after the fact is not for the faint-of-heart. I had a similar problem when I installed 1.1R. And I found that it happens only when I have more that 4 partitions for BSD. At first time, I tried to make 5 partitions for BSD, and the installation procedure displayed some error messages which was posted. And the dos partition was not mounted. After I reduced the number of partitions to four, the error message was gone and dos partition was mounted. I think that it was because BSD can have only disk partitions in a single disk, from a to h (3 of them are not usable). Woody Jin