From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 9 15:26:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27926 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk (tweetie-pipex.online.barbour-index.co.uk [194.129.192.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27868 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:25:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@online.barbour-index.co.uk) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA01268; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 23:25:22 GMT (envelope-from scot@online.barbour-index.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: tweetie.online.barbour-index.co.uk: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 23:25:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: Jeff Lynch cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installboot (was Re: Boot) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've had no end of trouble getting new installs of FreeBSD to install. The trick I usually use now is to make sure a 20M or so DOS partition exists on the boot drive before I install. It's apparantly something to do with the install not guessing the geometry of the disks properly. And it's always useful to have a DOS partition to store all the config stuff for cards in the machine. Of course you need to buy a DOS licence for each machine then :) Hope that helps Scot. On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jeff Lynch wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:18:16 -0600 (CST) > From: Jeff Lynch > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: installboot (was Re: Boot) > > On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > > > wd(0,a) > > > > I tried running /stand/sysinstall and rewriting the boot track but that > > still didn't work (assuming I did it right, its not as if it tells you it > > was done). > > This, I think is an important question to ISPs and anyone else > heavily using FreeBSD. When I needed to do this on SunOS4.1.x, > I just booted off CD or as a diskless client, mounted /usr > and ran "installboot" with the appropriate args. Worked like > a champ. I have yet to find a parallel to this for FreeBSD. > But then, on SunOS we didn't have any possibly tricky boot managers > to consider. Anyone know the magic incantation, assuming one exitst? > > ========================================================================= > Jeffrey A. Lynch JORSM Internet > email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider > Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 > Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)171 7046777 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message