From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 10:53:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23690 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:53:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23606 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10572; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: E Walk cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't install FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19980626051249.10131.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, E Walk wrote: > I was going to use my D drive for the UNix and the WIndows 95 on the C. > I tried to use the dos fdisk, but it didn't work. FDISK wouldn't let me > split the hard drive. Do you know why? FDISK won't split drives, but FIPS will. FIPS is included on the FreeBSD CDROM or in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools. > ANother thing is when I try to install Unix, I get stuck > at probing, you know when the blue screen comes up and it says that its > probing. I read that I can scroll up and down using the Scroll Lock and > I did and all I can do is scroll which told me that the computer didn't > freeze but it wasn't moving either. I waited 30 minutes but it just > stayed there. Do you know why? I have a pent.II 300, 64 mb ram, and 4.1 > gb. If you have a Zip drive, try removing it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message