Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 10:35:09 PST From: John Fenwick <fenwick@hposl03.cup.hp.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: fenwick@hposl03.cup.hp.com Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 Install questions/difficulties Message-ID: <9601091835.AA11519@hposl03.cup.hp.com>
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Hello, I have been trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 and am experiencing a few difficulties. I have been installing from the CD-ROM, trying a "Novice" installation. The system HW looks like this: - Pentium CPU - DTC PCI SCSI controller - SCSI CD-ROM - Disk at addr. 0: 1.2 GB used only for Win95 and WinNT - Disk at addr. 1: 400 MB on which to install FreeBSD First attempt: while booted from DOS, install to disk at address 1. This resulted in a non-booting disk at address 0, on which I had to re-install the DOS boot sectors. Second attempt: Disconnect disk at address 0, boot from DOS floppy and install at CD-ROM. This installed correctly. However, when I re-connect the DOS disk at address 0 and try to boot from the FreeBSD boot floppy created as part of the installation process, the system continually reboots as soon as it reads from the FreeBSD boot floppy. These questions occur to me: Can I create a boot floppy that will go directly to the FreeBSD disk at address 1, or will give me a prompt to type in the path to the disk at address 1? (would solve problem #2 above) Can FBSDBOOT.EXE be used to specify a boot path to a second disk, or must it only be used to boot from another partition on the same disk? Thank you in advance for any pointers. - John Fenwick
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