The installer can't find my partition

From: Andreas (andreasv_at_telia.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:45:31 GMT

Hello

I have runned Windows as longs a i can remember, but last night i found out
that i wanted to try ut FreeBSD. I want to dual-boot, so i can use both
OSes.
So, i downloaded the CD's, burnt them and labeled them properly.
I have three hard disks which had a total of ten partitions.
These were:

Disk1 (80 Gb it says, it's acctually ~75 Gb)
C: 10 Gb, containing WindowsXP
D: 10 Gb
E: 30 Gb
F: 5 Gb
G: 20 GB

Disk2 (80 Gb here to)
H: 25 Gb
I: 25 Gb
J: 30 GB

Disk 3 (120 Gb)
K: 40 Gb
L: 80 Gb

All my partiotions were quite full of data, but after a while i managed to
empty one of the partitions. It was the D: -partition, 10 Gb. This is were i
want to install FreeBSD.
I formatted this one, and deleted it, using "Administratve Tools" in
Windows.
Now i inserted the CD labeled "Boot Only", and rebooted my computer. The
installer started. I was soon asked where i wanted to install FreeBSD. I
choose my first hard disk.
But, here's my problem:
After selecting hard disk to install to, i get a message where it says that
my hard disk geometry is wrong. I pressed OK and hoped that it wouldn't
matter that much. After that, i got this Fdisk-screen. But it's just showing
MBR (64 bytes or so), my first partition (the one with Windows on), a big
partition at 60 Gb and some 21 Mb free space after that.
Why does it show a 60Gb partition, and not 1x10 Gb with free space and these
other partitions i've got on the first hard disk?

Thanks in advice.
/Andreas

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