I got a new machine (500 MHz PIII) with a 12 GB disk (nothing nowadays
though :-). There was already NT 4.0 installed and a 3.9 GB unitialized
partition left.
I booted the 3.3 CD, chose Custom and tried to create a FreeBSD
partition. 13200 blocks were left. I tried both, half of it and
the whole left partition but afterwards in the label editor
there was no entry I could define my filesystems on.
Weird.
Maybe a problem with large disks? Maybe that the FreeBSD partition
has to be in the first 2 GB of a disk? Maybe because I could not
create FreeBSD slices? Maybe I should repartition the whole disk,
install FreeBSD and then reinstall NT . Sigh.
To avoid all this the following idea came to me:
while studying the BIOS boot options I saw ATAPI IDE, FD, and Int 18 device.
Does FreeBSD support Int 18 Device?
I assume this could be something like netboot, couldn't it?
OTOH, the PCI 100 MBit ethernet card has a EPROM socket on it...
With a 100MBit network, diskless could become interesting and I could
try to netboot this machine.
Any suggestions?
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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