From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 12:33:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06996 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:33:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06984 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:33:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA16156; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:32:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:32:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Fletch Hasues cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Booting In-Reply-To: <01BC378E.2353A7E0@www.generali-auto.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please wrap your lines about column 70. Thanks. On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Fletch Hasues wrote: > I purchased a copy of FreeBSD from you guys. The CD you sent me > doesn't really work as it cannot install all the packages from it. Which version of FreeBSD is this? > However, I got around most of this. Anyway, now my problem is this: I > have 2 hard drives (both 1.2G on the Primary port). The Master is a > Windows95, and the slave is the FreeBSD drive. When I set it up, first > the BootEasy bootloader doesn't work right. Can you please be more specific as to why it doesn't work righ? I need details here, my mindreader isn't currently functioning...:) > Also it can't mount DOS > partitions really well. The reason I think is it keeps stating that > root cluster is not a multiple of the partition it is mounting. OK, this is the danger sign. Don't mount this partition anymore, you run a pretty good risk of destroying it and your BSD partition. If yuou're running 2.1.7.1 you're probably ok. > set them (as to which file.) I can boot to FreeBSD using OSBS2. And > maybe if you really feel compassionate..you can send me a CD that > works..(and newer so the Xf! ! ree86 on the CD supports my Matrox > Millennium. :) Which packages are busted? There is a known bug that will cause odd problems with big pakcages such as xemacs. Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major