From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 25 11:17:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C31B37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA17CA; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:23:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3B37803E.D65690B9@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:17:34 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: whitt38@home.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major install confusion References: <002301c0fc11$a092e940$ec270f41@rocky1.ct.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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