From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 12:39:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18925 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:39:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo26.mx.aol.com (imo26.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18912 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from VISISHTA@aol.com) Received: from VISISHTA@aol.com by imo26.mx.aol.com (IMOv13.ems) id HHLTa11407 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:39:04 -0500 (EST) From: VISISHTA Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:39:04 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Install Problems Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 51 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ... I have a Sony PCV200 multimedia PC with, 233MHz PII, 4GB EIDE HDD and Microsoft Windows95 as the OS. I partitioned the Hard Drive using PowerQuest's PQ Magic and created a 900MB partition for installing FreeBSD. I obtained the Version 2.2.5, 4-CD pack from WalnutCreek. I made several attempts to install FreeBSD to the new partition unsuccessfully. The BIOS settings for the HDD are 14848-cylinders, 9-heads, 63-sectors per track. I noticed that MS-Dos, Win95 and FreeBSD too ( in the config mode), were reading the drive geometry as 524-Cylinders, 255-heads and 63-sectors per track. During the installation process I get a popup saying "unable to install files to \bin " (something like that). After going through the installation process and when the system is rebooted to FreeBSD OS (with Boot Manager installed), I get an error message saying "cannot find config file", "cannot find kernel". Another strange problem is I cannot create a FreeBSD boot floppy. when I run the Make floppy utility from the VIEW menu, the floppy gets formatted but aborts immediately with an error "unable to find sector " . I am complete novice to Unix but have installed with other OSs like DOS (Windows) and WinNT. I am not sure if I am doing something radically wrong, as I can't install FreeBSD even with the help of the HandBook. Help me guys. Thanks Nandakishore Bhajana Email : visishta@aol.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message