Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:59:52 +0100 From: Tony Balazs <tony@rothstein.co.uk> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Newbie installation problems (4.0-RELEASE) Message-ID: <01BFCBB0.24EC1EC0@pc20>
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I am having some difficulty installing a near-minimal FreeBSD on a test PC at work and would greatly appreciate some help. This is my first posting here.
The PC in question is a 166MHz Pentium with 64MB RAM and a single 6GB HDD. I am trying an installation from a 2GB (too big?) DOS partition (installation files in C:\FreeBSD\bin C:\FreeBSD\doc etc) and have created one 2GB FreeBSD partition and one 2GB Linux partition for possible future use.
/, /var/, /usr/ and swap seems to be created OK automatically (but see below). When I do the installation the following problems occur:
1. From what I can see on the screen, all the installation goes into / by default, instead of the bulk going into /usr/.
2. When I subsequently boot into FreeBSD on the HDD partition, I an unable to access the installation program and so if I want to try putting more files is have to use the 2 boot floppies again.
3. Possibly as a result of 2. when I go back into the labeller, only swap is listed; the other FreeBSD partitions are unmounted (maybe that's right, I don't know). 4. If, having rebooted using the floppies I try to add more files to the installation, I get a disk full error, presumably because everything is being added to / and not to /usr/. I have tried this over and over, to no avail. I fear that after a few more fdisks to re-start from scratch my DOS partition will be trashed! Perhaps someone can see what's going on.
Thanks for any help.
Tony.
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