From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 11 18:56:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from silverchair.futureks.net (silverchair.futureks.net [209.134.106.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED95037B43F for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drwho@futureks.net) Received: from futureks.net (IDENT:drwho@smeghead.futureks.net [209.134.106.93]) by silverchair.futureks.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id UAA31135 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:56:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3AD50AE2.60B888E5@futureks.net> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:54:43 -0500 From: "Patrick R. Klee" Organization: Bloodline Interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD for the first time Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I got FreeBSD 4.2 and I am REALLY excited about installing it, but I have a problem. I went through the trouble of installing it, but thinking it will work when it reboots, the error I get is, I think, "No MBR found." I know there are two options, "Install FreeBSD boot manager." and "Install a standard boot manager." But, I have tried both and it still can't find the MBR, or kernel. I need some help, because I have been using Red Hat Linux since 4.2 and want to use FreeBSD, but, the install doesn't baffle me but yet, once I get the MBR thing figured out, I could have something REALLY specatcular. Here's one more thing. I have 2 drives. 1.2 gig and 1.0 gig. Maybe that's another thing with the MBR, I don't know what drive or even what directory to put them in. Can someone give me an example of what directories to have, and how much space for each one, like ( / - 65MB) Regards, Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message