Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:46:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Martino <chrismar@mail.eclipse.net> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.980409104045.17815A-100000@mail.eclipse.net> In-Reply-To: <199804091429.JAA15744@horton.iaces.com>
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Okay let me clarify a few things so I know what do do differently later
tonight.
Oh, we did defragment last night before re ran anything, and we till
ended up with 354 meg D partition.
Ok, so once we make the D drive delete it using the FDISK on the DOS side
or the one you use once you begin the installation? And the 1st thing we
do with that drive it delete it, so it can be used for FreeBSD... Okay
that make sense now.
The rest I can follow I think. I just am wondering which fdisk you are
talking about.
Anyways, I'll let you know how it turns out!
Thanks alot!!
Chris
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Paul T. Root wrote:
> 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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