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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
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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. ;-)