From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 4 15:11:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14342 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:11:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14329 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:11:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA08968; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:13:49 -0700 From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: Silvio Sosio cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Virtual PC In-Reply-To: <199809041920.VAA16368@blue.planet.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Silvio Sosio wrote: > I've bought FreeBSD 226 from Walnut Creek. I'm trying to installing it on > the PC emulator for Macintosh Virtual PC 2.1 (Connectix), but FreeBSD > doesn't find the (virtual) hard drive. I know that it's possible to > install Linux on Virtual PC. > There's anybody knows something about this problem? I've never been able to get FreeBSD to install on VPC, and everyone I have talked to has had a similar experience. However, it has always found the HD. It blows up later in the installation. Do other OSes find it? Can you get to it if you boot from a DOS floppy? Sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"They burn their bridges as they http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | go." Consulting: http://www.efn.org/~seanh | --Natalie Merchant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message