From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 12:21:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09030 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09024 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA04336; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:23:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:23:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "S. Vella" <103254.3676@CompuServe.COM> cc: Free BSD Subject: Re: Help with FreeBSD2.1 install In-Reply-To: <961130004418_103254.3676_IHH99-1@CompuServe.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 29 Nov 1996, S. Vella wrote: > I am doing a FreeBSD 2.1 install on a 486/66 (8Mb RAM) pc with the following > hard drives: > 1. Western Digital 420 Megabytes, has 1 DOS partition and about 130 Mb free > space > 2. Western Digitall 1.6 gig hard drive, has 1 Dos partition and about 98% free > > I am using the inst_ide.bat file to do a novice install from a CDROM. During the > initial boot up it lists a wd0 and wd1 corresponding to the two drives. However > when I get to the "FreeBSD Disk LAbel Editor" screen only one disk is listed as > follows: > wd0s1 none 405 DOS > > The second disk is not listed and the only command that this Disk Label editor > responds to is Q. All other commands give a beep and a message. You must run the fdisk editor before the disklabel editor. Make sure you enter the fdisk editor and add freebsd partition space on that disk before disklabeling. Use the 'novice' installation option to help you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major