> For others who have large IDE disks with multiple partitions,
> I recommend avoiding FreeBSD 4.0.
> I allocated a 2GB primary partition for BSD on a 30GB IDE disk,
> and I did tell the fdisk program the proper C/H/S geometry.
It sounds like the following is what has happened:
- use other OS tools to partition disk in some way, leaving a portion of
the disk not defined within any partition;
- installed some other OS;
- tried installing FreeBSD-4.0 using its partition tools to create
an additional partition in the unused disk.
Can you boot up some other OS and double check what the partition
arrangement settings now are on your disk (you don't need BSD for this).
People on this newsgroup who are trying to improve the install systems will
need some facts to work on. It would be helpful to describe what tools
originally partitioned the disk (I assume some other tools were used
otherwise how did you ever have anything on the disk that could be lost).
Cheers,
phillip
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