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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 install fiasco Date: 4 Jan 1996 19:33:14 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cha1q$2s6@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4c9vmb$17h@mars.efn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4c9vmb$17h@mars.efn.org>, Michelle Brownsworth <michellb@efn.org> wrote: >Now, although Western Digital provides software, Ontrack Disk Manager, to deal >with the 528 MB barrier, the W/D manual (addressing Unix installation) states: >"Ontrack Disk Manager CANNOT be used with Unix. Current Unix operating systems >do not work with translatin BIOs. You must set up your BIOS without enabling the >translation feature. Enter your CMOS setup and select a user-defined drive type. The OnTrack documentation is wrong in the case of FreeBSD. We (the FreeBSD project) worked specifically with OnTrack Systems, Inc. to get support for their boot manager. You can install OnTrack *and* the FreeBSD boot manager (BOOTEASY) and they'll happily co-exist. Try turning translation back on if you want to run both DOS and FreeBSD off the same drive. Jordan