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From: fairpay@stoat.riga.lv (Fair pay)
Subject: FreeBSD installation trouble
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Hello,
The CD-ROM with 2.2.1 arrived at last. Now the real problem.
There are 3 SCSI disks in the PC, FreeBSD is dreamed to be installed
on the 3rd HDD on H: extended partition. The reason extended partitition
is planed for FreeBSD install, is that if primary partition is created,
then OS/2 and NT installations on other disks will have big mess with
drive letters. I can remap disks under NT, but it's not possible with
OS/2. And existing OS/2 boot manager may boot from both primary and
extended partitions.
When OS/2 fdisk is run, it shows the following picture for the 3rd SCSI
disk:
Partition Information
Name Status Access FS Type MBytes
컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴�
None : Primary FreeSpace 7
Merlin Bootable F: Logical HPFS 1019
None G: Logical HPFS 517
None H: Logical Unformatted 502
When FreeBSD fdisk is run through Novice installation, it shows for the
same disk
컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴
Disk geometry: 261 cyls/255 heads/ 63 sectors = 4192965 sectors
0 16065 16064 - 6 unused 0
16065 4176900 4192964 sd2s1 4 extended 5
4192965 1339 4194303 - 6 unused 0
So for me it seems like FreeBSD fdisk sees all the extended partitions as one
big partition.
The approach when free space is left on the disk, and then the partition is
created with FreeBSD fdisk does not work for me, as in this case primary
partition is created. But FreeBSD boots fine in the case.
What do I miss ? What may be done ? Is it possible to create extended partition
with FreeBSD fdisk ?
Another thing. There is SCSI Iomega ZIP disk. It's visiable under both OS/2
fdisk and NT's Disk Administrator, but FreeBSD installation does not show it.
Is there a way to install FreeBSD on SCSI ZIP disk ?
Thanks in advance. Dmitry
dima@irs.riga.lv