From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 17:29:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CDF037B8FD for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:29:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from danny (tntwc01-3-244.idx.com.au [203.166.3.244]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA19547; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:28:22 +1000 Message-ID: <001f01bfdcab$3794f310$c401a8c0@danny> From: "Danny" To: "James Diefenderfer" , "Christoph Sold" Cc: References: <3950BBD0.8ACEB750@worldly.org> <3950C7DD.D170EF4E@i-clue.de> <395159CA.8A0907C0@worldly.org> Subject: Re: Read Error Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:37:28 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It all depends on the type of partition strategy -You might have a partition with WIn98 and FreeBSD then you choose the first one "booteasy" -Choose the second option to use the default BSD boot manager -And finally choose the last one to leave your boot manager alone - And sorry for using Outlook Express if you are still recieving emails in html headers Looking forwad to your feedback dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Diefenderfer" To: "Christoph Sold" Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Read Error > I am trying to reinstall, yet again, but after I deleted and re-created > the FreeBSD slice I was never prompt by the box that ask which type of > MBR to use. Instead the installer went to the partition tool. Once this > was finished the installation started. > > Now, without specify the MBR type I suppose I will, once again, get the > "Read Error". > > I find it extremely odd that each time I try to install the installer > acts different. Yes, I choose Novice each time. This kind of reminds me > of the NT installer only alittle easier. But then again, I was finally > able to get NT installed. Something I have yet been able to do with > FreeBSD. > > > > -- > James > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message