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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swiss.ans.net!newstf01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rrrccc@aol.com (Rrrccc) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Install - FreeBSD -fdisk not recognizing free disk space Date: 16 Jan 1995 13:02:25 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 13 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <3fecbh$4vb@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: rrrccc@aol.com (Rrrccc) I am installing Free-BSD on my NEC-486 machine (DOS/Windows already installed and running) with a 420 meg hard drive. When I (try to ) use f-disk to create the FreeBSD partition/slice, it displays the disk "Geometry as 386 cyl. It also claims the DOS partition size as 386M, which leaves me nothing to allocate to FreeBSD. It appears that it is not recognizing the whole drive, i.e. where's the rest - 420 meg disk size - fdisk only sees 386m. To complicate matters further MS-DOS scandisk claims there is 84 meg free !!! Do I have to edit the DOS partition, and if so can I do this without destroying DOS;/data ??? Any insight would be greatly appreciated... tanx