Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 18:26:43 -0700 From: Carl Weidling <cpw@rahul.net> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Trouble with disklabel trying to install Free BSD Message-ID: <199609030126.AA08718@waltz.rahul.net>
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Hi, I have a CDROM from InfoMagic dated November 1994. It has both Free BSD and Net BSD on it. I bought it awhile back and, as an experiment, installed netbsd on a laptop with it (250MB hard drive). That laptop has since bitten the dust. What I have now is a computer with 16MB, ADM486dx2-80, and EIDE Western digital drives. Recently, I bought a 2nd Western Digital EIDE hard drive and have been trying to install FreeBSD (vers 2.0) on it. I've even tried makeing it the primary and only HD (setting jumpers according to disk documentation, etc). I use rawrite to copy boot and cpio floppies and started the install, but I get stuck in disklabel, which keeps telling me me I have invalid partitions when I try to assign. I've tried carving up my harddrive lots of ways with your fdisk (I have to say it seems more confusing to me than linux's fdisk, but that may be a matter of experience.) For instance, linux's fdisk will list the numbers for different partitions (including various BSD type partitions). I was only able to install linux after getting updated disk manager software from Western Digital (actually Ontrack) and I wonder if this, and the fact that I'm using 1gig+ drives, is part of my problem. I did try creating relatively small partitions (300 to 400MB) and having them in the low number cylinders of my drives. I'm sure there are improvements in newer versions of FreeBSD, but I wanted to try what I had to get a feel for things before breaking down and ordering a new CD-ROM BTW, I suppose that my old verson doesn't understand ATAPI cd-rom drives (my linux version sure doesn't, aargh), what about the latest versions? Could I install directly from an ATAPI cd-rom drive with those? Thanks in advance for any help, Regards, Carl Weidling
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