From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 01:27:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA19037 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 01:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peeper.my.domain ([208.128.8.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA19032 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 01:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tom@localhost) by peeper.my.domain (8.8.5/8.7.3) id DAA04596; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 03:24:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19970610032405.45449@peeper.my.domain> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 03:24:05 -0500 From: Tom Jackson To: Yang Wu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question ! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: ; from Yang Wu on Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 02:44:56PM -0400 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 02:44:56PM -0400, Yang Wu wrote: > W.C.CDROM, > > I installed FreeBSD 3 times. > I reserved 500Mbytes for it(D drive), and the first time when I > install it (by INSTALL ) the message says the disk is full. The first of all, you don't install freebsd to the d: drive. You install it to a free partition, preferably on your first hard drive. 500 mb is fine for basic install with source omitted. > second time even made the PC dead and the hard drive remained spinning. The > only thing I can do is turn off the power. The third time, unfortunately > , I can't retrive those compressed files after I installed the kernel. slow down, if you have a dos boot floppy, boot it and enter fdisk /mbr. This will return you to a clean dos boot sector at the start of your disk. Get dos/w95 working first, make sure to keep 500 mb free from w95. Then make a freebsd boot.flp from your freebsd cdrom. Make sure it boots up and watch carefully the hardware probes for any problems. > > It seems that FreeBSD doesn't work stably on my PC. After all > of this, I format my hard drive again, while FreeBSD had changed my boot > sectors' information or some other system's records. I can't run win95 freebsd didn't do this. You have become befuddled and shot yourself in the foot ;). You might describe your hardware for potential problems. You really need to read the documentation provided on the cdrom. > normally now! The PC is crashed, and the fixit.flp doesn't help much. > Do you have any idea about how I can restore my system (low-level format > or any other way to do it)? > > Can I return the CDROM to you and ask refund of it ? > Most definitely you can, but are you giving up that easy? > > > Yang Wu good luck, email to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org any problems, there are plenty of people at this mailing list willing to help you. Try to make your subject line a little discriptive -- Tom Jackson I'm ProChoice->FreeBSD toj@gorilla.net http://www.freebsd.org