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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ais.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!not-for-mail From: Slater@cris.com (Rick Slater) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install kernel panic problem Date: 3 Apr 1997 21:48:05 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5i18il$8n8@chronicle.concentric.net> References: <5hbq4q$8rn@chronicle.concentric.net> <5hrajt$nme@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mariner.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38434 Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote: : Good luck. This sort of stuff is a pain in the ass 'cos it takes so : long to find out you've screwed up. Thanks to your help, I managed to get things working. It turned out that, if I created only one dos primary partition first, I could then let the install program go ahead and install FreeBSD. After that was accomplished, I went back to the Win 95 fdisk utility and created an extended dos partition which included the remainder of the disk drive. FreeBSD can now write to the primary partition (smaller than 1024 Megs), and Win 95 can use the rest of the disk by means of the extended partition. Everyone seems to be living happily with everyone else. Only Netscape is displeased, because it can't find a default color map of some kind. I guess that's the price of moving to a new machine. Thanks for all of your help. Regards, Rick Slater -- I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.