Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 14:36:31 -0800 From: Sidney Traynham <traynham@cais.cais.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install FreeBSD 2.1.0 Message-ID: <311534EF.4476@cais.com>
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Dear FreeBSD, I am currently attempting to install FreeBSD on the following system: 386 SX-40 8MB RAM IDE Controller Card (ISA) 850MB Hard Drive (Western Digital) The hard drive is using disk manager (by Ontrack) because my controller card and BIOS do not support hard drives over 528MB. It says in the manual of the disk manager that it will not work with Unix systems. So, I decided to test out FreeBSD with the 528MB limit and not use the rest of the space (about 300MB). When I use the fdisk program supplied in your boot disk I make the modifications I need to (I am dedicating the whole drive to FreeBSD) and I hit 'W' to write the partition info. Then it goes through a series of menus (the bootup menu, I selected MBR; and then it says the partition info has been written successfully, and I hit enter). It then says writing partition info to drive 'wd0'. It then locks on that. I have let it sit for over 7 hours like that and it still just sits there. So I then hit escape and that just gave a beep. Then I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and it said 'Are you sure you wish to cancel the installation?'. I then said no and it went back to writing the partition info to drive wd0. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del again I hit yes on cancelling the installation and it reboots (which I assume is normal). I can't get past this stage of it locking when writing the partition info to drive wd0 and at this point I have switched no disks. I have tried all three types of installation (Novice, Express, and Custom) and all of them lock. What can I do to fix this problem? If this question was directed to the wrong place please let me know where to send it (help@freebsd.org, support@freebsd.org, ???). Thank you, Sidney Traynham traynham@cais.com
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