Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:20:27 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Message-ID: <199601282320.BAA00226@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <9601281602.AA13485@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Jan 28, 96 11:02:17 am
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On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > . . . . . > I have a strong suspicion as to what is going on. I was able to install > the minimal FreeBSD distribution from floppy. I guess that means that > the bin files are not corrupt. I don't have a means to check that the > copies on my hard-drive are not corrupt, but I believe that the evidence > is against this anyway. My belief is that the FreeBSD kernel is reading > from the floppy device correctly, but not reading correctly from my hard- > drive. . . . . . Sorry to learn you've been having such trouble getting FreeBSD installed from your MS-DOS partition. :-( If you wouldn't mind, there is some information you can provide that would assist us in investigating problems that sometimes occur when FIPS has been used to split an existing MS-DOS partition. FIPS can be run in 'test/debug' mode, and will then generate a file 'fipsinfo.dbg' containing diagnostic data relating to your MS-DOS filesystem. The command to do this is fips -t -d (The option -t disables writes to disk. The option -d enables debugging.) The procedure should not make any changes to your hard disk. It also shouldn't take more than a minute or so. A sample session is given below (only prompts for input are shown): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\>fips -t -d Press any Key Which Drive (1=0x80/2=0x81)? 1 Which Partition do you want to split (1/2)? 1 Do you want to make a backup copy of your root- and bootsector before proceeding (y/n)? ************************************* ***** Hit Ctrl-C at this point. ***** ************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you can e-mail me the 'fipsinfo.dbg' file (for the MS-DOS partition from which you could not install FreeBSD), it'd be a help in getting to the bottom of this. -- Robert Nordier
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