Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:08:31 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tarbet@swaa.com (Margaret Tarbet) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 install problem Message-ID: <199601020038.LAA02514@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <MAPI.Id.0016.006f6d63617420203733324630303033@MAPI.to.RFC822> from "Margaret Tarbet" at Jan 1, 96 06:52:23 pm
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Margaret Tarbet stands accused of saying: > Got my copy of the 2.1 cd and tried to install it on my dev > machine. Didn't work. The (novice) install appeared to go > successfully, but my dos boot block was clobbered without > obviously being replaced by the bsd boot. After i fixed the In context, it's more likely that the bootblock was replaced with a vanilla bootblock that pointed to the BSD slice. > boot block so that dos would run again, i tried the install > again, same result. In both cases, because i want to use > System Commander to manage the boot selection, i chose to > have a simple boot block installed rather than the bsd boot > manager. That shouldn't be significant, but y'never know. It is; you shouldn't be installing any bootblock at all, as it will override your current (I presume "System Commander") bootblock, which is not what you want. > Micropolises (devs 0 and 1), 2x 1GB Fujitsus (devs 2 and Micropoli? 8) > 3), an old 200Mb Connor (dev 4), a Archive Viper 250Mb tape > drive (dev 5) (what makes that a "known rogue" btw?), and It deviates from the SCSI spec, requiring special handling. > Device 0 has DOS 6.2.2 and Unixware 2.0, managed by System > Commander. Device 1 continues with an extended DOS part and > a Unixware part. Device 2 has an extended DOS part in the > front half, and the back half is where i attempted to > install fbsd. Device 3 is dedicated to DOS, and device 4 > to Unixware. Unless you have a hoopy BIOS here, you're SOL; booting from anything other than the first two disks is more or less impossible under the PC-AT BIOS model. If you shrink the DOS partition on the first disk by about 50M you can put a BSD root filesystem there and then mount from the third. > Far's i can tell, source to the installer isn't included so > i'm pretty much on the beach with this. Any ideas? /usr/src/release/* > I'd like to help with the project, if there's any perceived > need for my field of expertise which is product > usability/human factors/ergonomics/whatever. Unlike most > folk in this field, i'm also a techie, tho as you might > suppose i prefer working up at the human end of the food > chain rather than at the kernal-and-device-driver level. I You should get in touch with Frank Durda (bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org); this is one of his fields too, and I'd wager the two of you can offer an awful lot in the way of suggestions that would help us human-hostile programmers 8) > =margaret -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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