Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:04:38 +0000 From: Zaphod.Beeblebrox@imailbox.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MBR problem installing 2.2.2 Message-ID: <19971026220912.1af16e66.in@mail.imailbox.com>
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I'm not sure where this belongs, but for now I'll assume it will end up in the right place eventually. I just installed 2.2.2 (literally three days before 2.2.5 came out.... DOH!), and I don't plan on upgrading anytime soon because downloading even a minimum install with a 14.4 modem over a low quality line is like pulling teeth, except it takes longer... So, I used FIPS to create a partition on my 540 meg IDE drive (I had a nasty windows virus the week earlier that took out half my drive, so, I decided to put all that empty space to good use) and the first time I installed FreeBSD (from the MS-DOS partition to the other partition) it basically chewed up and spat out my MBR... :( (for some unknown reason...). (un?)Fortunetly, I had made a copy of my boot sector using FIPS and was able to recover the DOS/WINDOWS partition my mom and sister use. And, I've said all this to make two suggestions for future installation programs..... 1) I would have been much happier about the whole installation if I knew what it was going to be like (i.e. when I was going to choose my installation method, my drive partitions, when the changes would be written and stuff like that...) before it happened, I was pretty nervous dealing with my MBR or boot sector not knowing exactly what is going to happen. 2) Twice I had to reboot my machine because I forgot to download one of the abundent binary files, and BSD wouldn't either stop where is was and let me continue later, or give me an option to cancel the installation when a file was missing (It had a dialog box that just said [O.K.] and nothing else). Sorry that the letter ended up being very long-winded, if you have any questions (about my hardware, who I am, whatever....) Feel free to e-mail me personally. :) Jesse Kipp Zaphod@imailbox.com
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