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From: pitlord@zipnet.net (Eric Ogren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD with Ontrack Disk manager?
Date: 24 Apr 1996 15:25:48 -0400
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Hello all:

	I'm a fairly long-time Linux user, and just since I've never run
FreeBSD, I decided to take a look at it. I have a BIOS that doesn't
support harddrives over 528(i think that's the right number)MB, so I use
Ontrack's diskmanager.
	Ontrack creates one big partition. To Linux, it was just a big
unreadable partition, but the newest kernels could read it. To FreeBSD ..
I can't tell. FreeBSD locks up. It detects my first harddrive (wd0) fine,
but then freezes when looking for wd1. This happens both when I load 
Ontrack from the MBR, and when I don't.
	Has anybody installed FreeBSD with a disk lik this? I'm interested
in looking at it, but I can't if it won't install!

Thanks, 
Eric