From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 15:15:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE1F16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmxpita.excite.com (nn2.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6EA43FCB for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sundog2000@excite.com) Received: by xmxpita.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 056BC133C8; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:15:32 -0500 (EST) To: simong@desktop-guardian.com Received: from [68.50.51.235] by xprdmailfe5.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:15:32 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = c8ce77626d96cf702829a9802c577231 From: "Nick P." MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: sundog2000@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20031111231532.056BC133C8@xmxpita.excite.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:15:32 -0500 (EST) cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sundog2000@excite.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:15:34 -0000 >You're problem looks interesting, what version of freebsd are > >you trying? 4.9 >Have you setup any swap space? if so how much? You can do this >when you setup freebsd's. partitions. How big are the partitions >you've assigned? is there enough space to install what you've >choosen to install? I allotted like 20 GB for the partition, and I let it automatically set the swap and other partitions within that, and just went with its choices. >Should you have enough of using freebsd, you should be able to >clear your MBR (Master boot record)/freebsd boot loader by doing >'fdisk /mbr' from a dos boot disk But will that let me boot to my Windows partition? Does that not blow away all my partition stuff? Thanks for the info... still searching though. -Nick _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!