Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet
From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives antics
Date: 29 Dec 1996 21:52:15 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
Lines: 32
Message-ID: <5a6p6f$e3l@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
References: <59etkk$b2i@news.xs4all.nl> <59nbej$ps9@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<32C0110C.5686@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.coverform.lan
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33315
In article <32C0110C.5686@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu>,
JF <Mpsy013@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> writes:
[.....]
> I have also tried making an extended DOS
> partition, then using the Primanry as FreeBSD, but then I don't know
> where to tell it the FreeBSD dists are. I would really like to use
> FreeBSD, but I am getting frustrated. Any help would be appreciated.
If you do it this way, the first drive in the extended partition will
be called /dev/wd0s5 (assuming one IDE disk) - the '5' is the partition
number, 1-4 are primary.
If you load everything onto your D: drive under DOS, you can then boot
FreeBSD, zap the C: drive (wd0s1), use it for FreeBSD, load the
distribution from wd0s5, then once your system is up and running, zap
the extended partition in favour of another FreeBSD partition. Bear
in mind, if you have two FreeBSD partitions on the same disk, I believe,
you can only boot from a logical partition from the first physical
partition (or slice). You could even get brave and manually expand the
FreeBSD partition later. It's doable, but a pain in the ass to figure
out all the numbers ;)
After saying all that, I'd really recommend getting a CD for your first
install. They aren't really that expensive, and you get loads of
archives that you'll probably end up (slowly) downloading anyway. I'm
assuming that you have no direct 'net connection (otherwise you could
do an install from the 'net and do away with your dos partitions up front).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....