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Subject: Re: INSTALLATIONM ON A HP PAVILION 8670C
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Andrew Hilliard wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am haviing the worst time trying to install FreeBSD
>on a HP Pavilion 8670C.It has ATAPI CD-ROMS
>and when I attempted to do an installation
>of FreeBSD with version 4.7 of the software
>it failed. I attempted to do an installation from a 
>MS-DOS partition and thatb also failed.
>The softwae error message was that it couldnot swap
>to the swap space I created for it through Partition magic.
>
>Thank you
>
>Andrew Hillard
>
I don't know why you'd need to create a seperate
swap space with Partition Magic.  I'd recommend
creating one slice with PMagic and then use the
sysinstall program to allocate space for /, /var, /usr,
and swap.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.