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Date:      Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:27:03 +0100
From:      unics@connect.it
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   install 2.2
Message-ID:  <333BAB07.3403@connect.it>

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Good Morning !

When i try to install release 2.2 of FreeBsd on a pentium 133 machine
with HD of Conner and a NOVELL 2000 network interface it block the
keyboard on selecting the kind of installiation.
Follow the steps that i use for installation:

I have two partitions: C and D.
 
- Insert boot disk

- Selected novice installation

- In the window of FDISK Partition Editor there is:

Disk name: wd0
DISK Geometry: 620 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors = 2499840 sectors

  Offset           Size        End        Name     PType       Desc     
Subtype  Flags

 
      0              63         62           -         6       
unused          0 
     63         1963521    1963583       wd0s1         2          
fat          6  
1963584          532224    2495807       wd0s2         2          
fat          6
2495808            6048    2501855           -         6       
unused          0




Here i type Q


- I enter in the windows FreeBSD Disklabel Editor where there is:



Part      Mount                Size Newfs    Part   Mount        Size
Newfs
----      -----                ---- -----    ----   -----        ----
-----

wd0s1    <none>               958MB DOS
wd0s2    <none>               259MB DOS
 

  
Here i type Q (the only option that i can select)



- I enter in the Choose Distributions window where any option that i
select with SPACE it block the system and i must reboot the computer.
If i type enter it enter in other windows( Choose Media) and after in 
Choose a Dos partition, al last it
show the follows messagges:

No root device found - you must label a partition as / in the label
editor

No swap devices found - yuo mast create at least one swap partition

and other messagges of errors since it block and reboot



Thanks for help and bye at soon !



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