Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:29:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: chrismar@mail.eclipse.net (Chris Martino) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problems Message-ID: <199804091429.JAA15744@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.980409094647.8412A-100000@mail.eclipse.net> from Chris Martino at "Apr 9, 98 09:53:27 am"
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In a previous message, Chris Martino said:
> To Whom it May Concern:
>
> Now, my question to you is, from what I tell you does it seem like we did
> anything wrong? I don't know what happened so I hoping you can tell me
> some ideas to try. As far as I know he is doing a restore of
> Win95 tonight and tomorrow we are gonna start totally from scratch.
You did a lot of things wrong.
If Win95 said there was 640 meg free, and fips only came up with 384 meg,
then you probably should have defragmented the drive first, that would have
cleared more.
Next, fips made this D: drive for you. That's the partition you wanted to get
rid of in fdisk and install FreeBSD into. Sounds like you may have hit 'a' in
fdisk to use the entire disk. I'm not sure how you did that without first
deleting the DOS partition. Maybe fips failed, but it doesn't sound like
it since you rebooted a couple of times.
I've never used the install.bat. I've always made a boot floppy, so I can't
say what the problem was with the booting problems.
The "F1... BSD" prompt was boot easy, telling you you had only one partition
on the disk, but when
Ok, tonight, make a boot floppy. Boot from it, run novice. Create FreeBSD
partition. In disklabel, choose 'a' for Auto defaults for all. This may not
be what you ultimately want, but it gets you started learning Unix. Then
choose what you want installed.
--
"Five left and cut or I waste everyone in first class."
--Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj
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