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From: jeh@barbarian.network.com (Jeff Henning)
Subject: Help with partition editor for 2.1 please :)
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Sender: jeh@barbarian (Jeff Henning)
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:22:07 GMT
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I am attempting to install FreeBSD from CD ROM and having some
difficulties.  I made the boot floppy and booted with the -c
option (since Micron decided to put my SCSI card at a different
port address - blah!).  When I select "Novice install" a window
pops up to select which drive I want to work on (I have the
BusLogic 946c controller with 2 1-Gig Conner drives plus the
Plextor CD ROM.  All of the devices are found).

I select sd1 as the device since I want everything on the second
hard disk (DOS/Windoze is on sd0).  When the partition editor comes
up, the only thing listed is something like:

sd0s1   <none>    DOS

The second SCSI drive is currently my D: drive under DOS.  I tried
the "A" option but I get the error "This option valid only on master
partition" or something like that.  After going blind reading the on-line
help, CD-ROM insert, and INSTALL.TXT I can't seem to figure out how to
partition the disk correctly.  Can someone please shed some light on
this please?  Thanks much in advance!

Jeff