Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 19:21:05 EST From: lmascare@phlfs.com (Larry Mascarenhas) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <199603220021.TAA04358@sas.phlfs.com>
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Hi Folks, I have purchased FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM & am in the process of installing it on my Micron Millenia Plus system. The system is a Pentium 133 with 16Mb RAM, a Buslogic 946c SCSI controller & 2 Conner 1Gig SCSI drives. The problems I am facing are "panic: bad dir" when I try to install FreeBSD on the 2nd drive. I tried installing it on the 1st drive as well with no success. The 1st drive has Windows95 on a 900 Mb partition & I tried to setup both root & usr & swap on the 1st drive. I even tried formatting the hard drives & installing FreeBSD only. Spoke to Tech support who suggested that I create a small DOS filesystem & then load FreeBSD, but to no avail. I am booting from the floppy & have created the fixit diskette. I can only install from floppy. "view" does not work for me at all. I did a newfs on the 130Mb partition on the 1st drive & that worked. The boot manager has been installed correctly as it gives me the boot prompts. Any help installing FreeBSD will be greatly appreciated. I am also a Unix Systems Administrator with extensive experience on Sequent Dynix/ptx as well as SCO Unix, so feel free to ask me to do anything technical (I hope). TIA Larry Mascarenhas ----------------- Systems Administrator CSC Networks / Prentice Hall in NYC E-Mail: LMascare@phlfs.com Tel: (212)463-4794 Fax: (212)807-9092
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