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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!koala.scott.net!acara.snsnet.net!polo.iquest.com!usenet From: richj@iquest.com (Richard Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.0.5-950622 SNAP Install Date: 22 Jul 1995 15:08:20 GMT Organization: interQuest Online Services -- Huntsville, AL Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ur494$ke1@polo.iquest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: richj.iquest.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 I have a Gateway-2000 486 DX2-66V with three hard drives - 340Mb, 424 Mb, and 1080 Mb - all being Western Digital. I would like to end up with the first two drives untouched, and to have a DOS partition on the third drive (some where around 450 Mb), and give the rest to FreeBSD. I am using geometry of 2100 Cylinders, 16 Heads, and 63 Sectors. After creating a 450Mb DOS Partitition and formating it as drive E:, I went to the FreeBSD install, and all was well except when I got through the DOS drive E: was gone. After reformating that partition, FreeBSD will not mount the root partition. I assume that both DOS and FreeBSD are fighting over some region on the drive... Can anyone help?? Thanks, Richard richj@iquest.com