From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 2:35:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B51737B404 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 02:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.powertech.no (smtp1.powertech.no [195.159.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D3843E88 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 02:35:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frode@nordahl.net) Received: from powertech.no (www2.powertech.no [195.159.0.162]) by smtp1.powertech.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 61F4D8977; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:35:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from 80.212.245.14 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nordahl.frode) by epost.powertech.no with HTTP; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:35:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <65149.80.212.245.14.1037702134.squirrel@epost.powertech.no> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:35:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Installing 5.0-DP2 From: "Frode Nordahl" To: In-Reply-To: <64952.80.212.245.14.1037700948.squirrel@epost.powertech.no> References: <64952.80.212.245.14.1037700948.squirrel@epost.powertech.no> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry about previous posting without subject. It was supposed to be "Installing 5.0-DP2". I was posting with my webmail using Lynx, so I guess that combination did not work well :) Mvh, Frode Nordahl Frode Nordahl said: > > Hello, > > > Installation from DOS fs does not work. The firsr error message is > "Operation not permitted", conequetive attempts fails with > "/dist allready exists" or similar. > > Unable to delete non-freebsd partitions from Fdisk. Setting them to > type 165 and then deleting works. > > Since installation from DOS is my only option right now, i went ahead > using installer from a june -CURRENT. This almost worked, but the boot > code was not properly written. The BootMgr comes up, but I get no > further. > > Trying Fixit from the 5.0-DP2 boot disks fails! Similar error as when > trying install from DOS fs. Fixing this after boot does not work > because of GEOM :( > > Mvh, Frode Nordahl -- Mvh, Frode Nordahl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message