From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 07:31:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03731 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:31:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03630 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA15744; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:29:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199804091429.JAA15744@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Installation Problems To: chrismar@mail.eclipse.net (Chris Martino) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:29:19 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Chris Martino at "Apr 9, 98 09:53:27 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message