From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 2:15:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E32037C08E for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 02:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Tony@rothstein.co.uk) Received: from rothstein.demon.co.uk ([194.222.159.246] helo=rothstein.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12xR2w-000785-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:13:47 +0000 Received: from pc20 [1.0.0.123] by rothstein.co.uk [194.222.159.246] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.84.R) for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2000 10:00:04 +0100 Received: by pc20 with Microsoft Mail id <01BFCBB0.24EC1EC0@pc20>; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:59:58 +0100 Message-ID: <01BFCBB0.24EC1EC0@pc20> From: Tony Balazs To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Newbie installation problems (4.0-RELEASE) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:59:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: Tony@rothstein.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.=20 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:=20 1. From what I can see on the screen, all the installation goes into / = by default, instead of the bulk going into /usr/.=20 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.=20 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.=20 Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message