From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 10:20:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24031 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo27.mx.aol.com (imo27.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24020 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DukOnALake@aol.com) From: DukOnALake@aol.com Received: from DukOnALake@aol.com by imo27.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id HLINa06638 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:19:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <6e15864e.35bcb697@aol.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:19:16 EDT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: My system doesn't work. What's wrong??? Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 64 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have the FreeBSD Walnut Creek CD and have had no luck installing it. Perhaps it is not possible. Following is a description of my system, could you tell me if it is possible without major reorganization? Intel 166MMX 64MB RAM HDD0=2.5GB IDE HDD1=6.5GB IDE CD-ROMs (2) Okay, the first HDD has a primary DOS partition C:=2GB and an extended DOS partition D:=500MB. The second HDD has three extended DOS partitions E:, F:, and G: The CD-ROMS are H: and I: and a networked machine's drive is J: The primary DOS partition has 700MB free space, the total free space is 5GB. Anyway, I bought the second HDD so I could install FreeBSD, but have had no luck. I tried putting a primary DOS partition on the second drive but it rearranged my drive letters, making D: into E: and calling the second primary D: Well that hosed my day, so I went back to the original plan, only one primary. I RTFMmed on the cd/book/book.txt, pages 34-40 or so and stopped when it said something like: it must be installed in the first 504 MB, repartition using... I said, "oops". Should I bag it and get another machine to use for UNIX? I have spent the better part of this year trying to understand and make Windoze 95 into something I can stomach, and I hate to screw it all up. I will really appreciate any advice that you can give me. Thank you for your time. Steven Minton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message