Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:28:22 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Cash <dcash@gnofn.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Problem Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960129151542.4014A-100000@www.gnofn.org>
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Hello. I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my computer and I am having some problems. I have a laptop connected to a docking station. The docking station has a 1.2 GB fixed disk drive (known as PEANUT) and a Toshiba 4x CD-ROM drive. It seems that the CD-ROM is unsupported by FreeBSD, althought I am not certain of this. In the laptop, I have a 500 MB fixed disk drive (known as GRAMPS). Currently, I have 482 MB of GRAMPS allocated as C: for Windows 95 and 400 MB of PEANUT allocated as D: for Windows 95. I left 800 MB of PEANUT free for the BSD install. I had to copy a good deal of the dists to C: to install BSD, but that seemed to finally work. However, the boot manager does not seem to work. The only noticeable change to the system after BSD has been installed is that the C: partition on GRAMPS has been made inactive and my only choice is to boot from flopopy and use fdisk to set that partition to be active, since my computer will not boot from a fixed disk without an active partition. And in my BIOS, my only boot options are "A:, C:" or "C:, A:". And when I set the C: partition to be the active partition, my computer just boots right into Windows 95 and doesn't seem to be aware that the might FreeBSD is even in its midst... Any ideas? The only thing I have not tried is to repartition GRAMPS so that C: becomes about 382 MB and I make a 100 MB partition for the core stuff of FreeBSD (could I get away with a smaller space?) on GRAMPS so that both are able to boot from GRAMPS. Then I could devote the large partition on PEANUT to the rest of FreeBSD...so should I go to the trouble to repartition GRAMPS or is this not the answer? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your attention to my problem. I can't wait to ge FreeBSD up and running! Sincerely, Dave Cash _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ /L\_/E\_/A\_/R\_/N\_/T\_/E\_/A\_/C\_/H\_/L\_/E\_/A\_/R\_/N\_/T\_/E\_/A\_/C\_/H\ Dave Cash Power to the People! Free-Net Free Agent in My Free Time Right On-Line! dcash@gnofn.org Dig it all.
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