Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:44:39 +500 From: "Ron Weaver" <weaverro@erinet.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install Help Needed Message-ID: <199601032347.SAA26084@eri.erinet.com>
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Dear Questions,
I'm having a *small* problem installing FreeBSD and could use a
suggestion or three. I am attempting to install 2.1, and am having
what I see as boot sector problems. I get "missing Operating System"
when I boot.
What I got :
new Zeos Pantera 133 (yes!) 16 meg ram
2 WD31600 (1,6 gig) drives
CDrom, Diamond Stealth 3400, Creative labs AWE32, Colorado T1000
28.8 modem, WIN95 (pre- and re- installed ;-| )
What I FTP'd :
the entire Release 2.1 (is there another digit?) from FREEBSD.
It ran just over 24 hours at 28.8 ... 300+ meg ... ugh, but I got it.
How I partitioned :
I partitioned the D drive for 775 meg for DOS, left the rest
unused, presumably for FREEBSD. seemed to work.
How it went:
Ran rawrite and made a boot disk. Booted it and entered the setup.
The first time I selected "Leave my boot sector alone". Allocated all
free space on D to FreeBSD. Chose Auto in the Label Utility.
Received messages that the filesystems could not be built.
Rebooted, chose "Standard Boot Sector". Built a lotta stuff in the
filesystems. Upon Reboot (no Floppy), got "missing Operating System".
In a stroke of genius (for me), I ran fdisk, made my C: Dos partion
ACTIVE, and life was good again (as far as Win 95 is concerned).
Booted the floppy again. Chose Gimme the "Boot Manager". Same result.
Read everything I could find (really). Still Stumped. I'd really like
to leave the boot sector alone, and boot a floppy with *my* kernal
when I want FreeBSD (probably safer) since I'll be running both,
FreeBSD 20% of the time, Win95 80% (untill I get comfortable I
suppose). What should I do ?
Thanks in advance for any help. Telling me where to find my answer is
a good answer (in case this is a real dumb problem).
Ron Weaver
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