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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!browns.co.uk!alistair From: Alistair Bell <alistair@browns.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Install on EIDE drive with DOS (actually, Win95) too... (yawn) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 18:35:11 GMT Organization: Brown's Operating System Services Ltd. Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <11491174wnr@browns.co.uk> Reply-To: alistair@browns.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: browns.demon.co.uk X-Broken-Date: Tuesday, Aug 15, 1995 18.35.11 GMT X-Newsreader: Newswin Alpha 0.6 Sorry guys, I know this is probably an FAQ, and I've read the FAQ, but I still don't have an answer to this... I have a 2100 cylinder drive (WD Caviar if it's relevant). Somewhere the BIOS translates it to 525 cylinders and 64 heads. I tried to install FreeBSD 2.0 (I'm annoyed that our Walnut Creek redistributor sent me 2.0 rather than 2.0.5, but we'll leave that unless it's relevant...) where the disk has and will continue to have DOS (actually Win95, but we'll come to that later...) also residing on it. Well... I thought, 'no problem, I'll create a partition and it'll install to it!' Well, of course, it didn't boot and I discovered that instead of putting the boot sector at translated cylinder 423, it put it at real cylinder 423, in the middle of my DOS partition! (I _did_ have a backup...) Now, the question. Given that DOS won't be able to access the disk if I manage to turn geometry translation off (I have an 800M DOS partition and I want it to stay that way!) am I completely hosed if I want to install FreeBSD on that disk too, or is there a way to do it? -- Alistair Bell, Brown's Operating System Services, London. Disclaimers as usual. alistair@browns.co.uk (home: alistair@ichthya.demon.co.uk) #include <random.quote>