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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sd2/2 FreeBSD installation problem Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:46:27 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <R.3244C4A3.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <51pdak$s1@ns1.win.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Mr.Andrew Micheals" <andy@anigma.win.net> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Mr.Andrew Micheals wrote: > to pull floppy and to key enter then reboots. Present system software > on this machine is dos and windows using all space except aprox 2nd > half of 3rd physical hard drive, this space is 1036 mb's and in bsd's > fdisk editor shows the correct 1023 cyl's with no aparent problems You cannot boot from the 3rd drive, only one of the first two. FreeBSD cannot be installed in this fashion, and you will either have to find some space on one of the first two drives or just dedicate a different machine to FreeBSD and leave your windows system alone. --- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project