Re: Partitioning HD for FreeBSD
From: ME (trash.trash_at_comcastdotnet)
Date: 10/29/03
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:58:56 -0700
Try this maybe:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#GEOMETRY
Also see section 3.21 as well.
Matt
"Marc Champagne" <news@ctldirect.DOT.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hi gang!
>
> I'm new to FreeBSD (but not to unix) and am having troubles
> understanding how the partitioning works at setup time.
>
> I have 1 HD (SCSI 18gig) of which all is for FreeBSD.
>
> I tried the complete FreeBSD installion using thes 2 setups
> as partitions (no boot manager was installed)
>
> slot1) Primary, , 700meg, type 82, Linux Swap
> slot2) Primary, boot, 17800meg, type 83, Linux
> slot3) empty
> slot4) empty
>
> that didn't work, so I then tried
>
> slot1) Primary, boot, 17700meg, type 83, Linux
> slot2) Primary, , 300meg, type 82, Linux Swap
> slot3) empty
> slot4) empty
>
> In both cases I CAN boot via the BOOT disk created at
> installation time, but when booting from HD I get "NO OS"
>
> DEVICES
> ===============
> Adaptec SCSI
> SCSI HD
> SCSI CDROM
>
> BIOS
> ============
> IDE HD's are set to NONE
> Primary Boot = SCSI
>
> Any help would be appreciated in setteing up the partionions
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