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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: some probs and questions Date: 10 May 1997 07:21:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5l17lt$9c1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <336fe4b3.5647499@news.sprynet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40691 lcappite@sprynet.com (Goatboy) wrote: > It shows my > first partition (thw win95 one), but the second (i use fips to split > my gig, and i deleted the unused partit, so I should have 500mb free > for fbsd to install on), it only shows 7mb of free space left. It > should be 500mb! What's wrong? No idea what this ezdrive does to your drive, but it seems to be everything else than what its name is suggesting. :-] Anyway, if you can afford reinstalling the Win95 partition, simply kill this ezdrive. You don't need it. Make the Win95 partition occupying the first 480 MB, this will leave you another 24 MB (504 MB is the limit, if you use the usual 1 MB = 1024 * 1024 bytes notation) for FreeBSD's root partition. That's where the file /kernel is loaded from. Everything else can safely go beyond the BIOS cylinder # 1024, FreeBSD has no problems accessing it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)