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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997 unics@connect.it wrote:

> Disk name: wd0
> DISK Geometry: 620 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors = 2499840 sectors
> 
>   Offset           Size        End        Name     PType       Desc     
> Subtype  Flags
> 
>  
>       0              63         62           -         6       
> unused          0 
>      63         1963521    1963583       wd0s1         2          
> fat          6  
> 1963584          532224    2495807       wd0s2         2          
> fat          6
> 2495808            6048    2501855           -         6       
> unused          0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here i type Q

Error #1:  No destination slice specified.  Select one of the "unused"
slices (probably the last one on the list) and make it FreeBSD.

> - I enter in the windows FreeBSD Disklabel Editor where there is:
> 
> 
> 
> Part      Mount                Size Newfs    Part   Mount        Size
> Newfs
> ----      -----                ---- -----    ----   -----        ----
> -----
> 
> wd0s1    <none>               958MB DOS
> wd0s2    <none>               259MB DOS
>  
> 
>   
> Here i type Q (the only option that i can select)

Error #2:  You need to type 'A' to get partitions, where your files will
go.

> - I enter in the Choose Distributions window where any option that i
> select with SPACE it block the system and i must reboot the computer.
> If i type enter it enter in other windows( Choose Media) and after in 
> Choose a Dos partition, al last it
> show the follows messagges:
> 
> No root device found - you must label a partition as / in the label
> editor
> 
> No swap devices found - yuo mast create at least one swap partition
> 
> and other messagges of errors since it block and reboot

Try fixing the above errors and try again.  You can always hit ? for help.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major