Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:17:34 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: whitt38@home.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major install confusion Message-ID: <3B37803E.D65690B9@acuson.com> References: <002301c0fc11$a092e940$ec270f41@rocky1.ct.home.com>
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Rod Whittlesey wrote: > When I boot with the install CD, sysinstall automatically starts and I can > get to into the FDISK partition editor but my new partition doesn't show up. > There is what looks like almost the entire disk, and then a 9 meg slice that > doesn't correspond to the 3 gig slice I had set up with Partition Commander. Did you create primary partitions or extended partitions? > There are references to INSTALL.EXE and VIEW.EXE that could be run from a > Microsoft partition. They're supposed to be on the install CD but don't > exist. (pages 29 and 69). Not having DOS or Windows, I've never looked for these files. Perhaps they are no longer included. I would figure out what's wrong with your install floppies, and use them. I have never had a problem using 1.44M floppies for FreeBSD install. I suspect that your floppies are bad. Since the floppies are written raw, more than 1,457,664 bytes will fit on them. I usually use Unix dd to make mine, not rawrite, however. Make sure that you format them first, and use full format, not the default "quick" format. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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