Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 23:24:15 EST From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: CC of Message sent to Robert Nordier Message-ID: <9601290424.AA14623@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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>From jeff Sun Jan 28 21:49:14 1996 To: rnordier@iafrica.com Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Content-Length: 1488 Status: R Mr. Nordier, Sorry about the debug file. I forgot to mention that I deleted the FreeBSD partition. I assumed you wanted the debug file to investigate my hard disk geometry. A suggestion from Mr. Jordan Hubbard was to back up all my DOS files and make a new partition and start from scratch. Since my system is quite new and I haven't added much of my own software above factory installed stuff yet, I decided to use fdisk to delete all my partitions and create a new primary DOS partition with 2/3 of my drive space and the remaining 1/3 was an extended DOS partition I called D: I subsequently reinstalled my entire system on the first (active and DOS formatted) 2/3 I called C: I then totally ignored FIPS and booted the BSD installation floppy, deleted D:, created FReeBSD in its place and continued with the installation process as before. In the Label Editor portion of the installation, I used the automatic defaults except that I mounted my 2/3 DOS partition at /dos. Continuing with the installation I get the error, UNABLE TO TRANSFER ROOT. Checking in debugging mode, I see that I am getting basically the same checksum errors as I was before. This implies to me that my problem was not with FIPS, but either still a kernel configuration problem or a hardware compatibility. Unless of course, I have done something I shouldn't have with the extended DOS partition attempt at installation. I must admit. I am baffled. What do you think? Sincerely, J. Metcalf
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