From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Mar 25 05:44:43 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E70816A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
	Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:44:43 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net
	[216.231.43.140])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8775843D55
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
	Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:44:42 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org)
Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2P5iq2H027457
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
	Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:44:52 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org)
Received: (from kline@localhost)
	by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2P5iquf027456
	for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG;
	Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:44:52 -0800 (PST)	(envelope-from kline)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:44:52 -0800
From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Message-ID: <20050325054452.GA27349@thought.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i
X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986.
X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community
Subject: update on the dual-boot and newfs hassles
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:44:43 -0000

	People,

	I'm almost done with the installation on my test platform.
	The reason newfs was erroring was a WRITE err; I finally
	booted single-user and fsck's /usr, then tried the 
	CD sysinstall for the Nth time N >=1, <= 70  :-|  
	Everything worked; from there is was a matter of getting
	files in /etc set.  

	For sure,  the past few days have been a learning experience.
	Understanding how to partition the 4 slices is a major win.

	I have one question.  Now when I boot I see

	F1: ???
	F2  FreeBSD

	Can anybody tell me what to add to /boot (??) so the loader
	prints "DOS" instead of "???"  If the sysinstall scripts
	recognize NTFS, what's wrong with the loader?

	thanks for the help,

	gary



-- 
   Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix