From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 11:59:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04749 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA04744 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01331; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:00:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:00:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jeff Clough cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 (Yes, Win95) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961125021413.0067ae80@pop.mv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Jeff Clough wrote: > I decided to take the plunge and install FreeBSD, so I copied my C drive > (the 1.2) to a subdirectory of my D drive (the 1.6) and used the FDISK that > came with Win95 to delete the old partition and create two new partitions, > each 600 MB long. How did you create the new partitions? You should have just left the disk blank and used sysinstall's fdisk manager to make these slices. They must be a special type. Delete those partitions and try installing again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major