From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 10 17:19:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02198 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 17:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.dave-world.net (root@shell.dave-world.net [204.189.73.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02190 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 17:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yaning.dave-world.net (m70bmi.Dave-World.net [206.26.2.70]) by shell.dave-world.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA04971 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 19:14:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <33750F99.115D@shell.dave-world.net> Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:15:21 -0500 From: Yaning Wang Reply-To: yaning@shell.dave-world.net Organization: State Farm X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help !! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Recently I bought FreeBSD from Walnut Creek CDROM, but I have some trouble to install it to my PC. My machine: Packard Bell Legend 100CD Pentium 60 Matshita CDROM/Panasonic Drive CR-563 HD1 Western Digital 2500RTL, 2.5G (this one is controled by companion EZ drive) HD2 Seagate ST3491A, 420M (this one can be control by either EZ drive or the BIOS) RAM 24M The problem: 1. It does not install to HD1 at all. Why ? (I only tried to install to HD2, alone or make HD2 as primary) 1. Boot up to DOS and install directly from CD I bootp up machine to DOS and I can see FreeBSD CD. Then I launch the installation from CD drive (CD-drive>install). In the installation 'media' menu, when I choose CD-ROM, the error message said: CD-ROM is not found (something like that) 2. I then made a boot floppy, according the procedure. when I chose CD-ROM as the media type, I got the same error message. 3. Then I tried to install from a DOS partition. It works but not the way I wanted. a. It only installed from a primary DOS partition in HD2. Since HD2 is too small, not much I can install. b. Worse of all is, my Win 95 is not able to run after the install. (I have to boot the machine from HD2 in order to use FreeBSD). When I press F1 to boot from DOS, it just sits there do nothing. Please give me some help, anything will be highly appreciated. -- Yaning Wang ========================================================== TP Analyst Network Service, Systems Technology State Farm Insurance Companies http://homepage.dave-world.net/~yaning