From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 21 08:46:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA04674 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 08:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA04667 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 08:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (perlsta@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23258 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:46:55 GMT Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 15:46:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dammit! :) (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 07:11:10 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: dammit! :) This is the wrong list. Such things should go to questions@freebsd.org > > sorry for this, but that system i was talking about in the previous > message is giving me a heck of a hard time. The BIOS in it doesn't > support large harddrives and i have a 4.3 gig IDE in it. > > after rebooting after the install (i didn't do the untar yet of the > backup) the machine will not boot. > > is there anyway to save the installation i did? > > sorry for flooding with dumb questions but the install procedure > especially switching disks with FreeBSD has always been difficult for me. > > Thanks again, > Alfred >