From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 15:45:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA06965 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from eri.erinet.com (root@eri.erinet.com [198.6.245.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06952 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from weaverro.erinet.com by eri.erinet.com (8.6.12/EriNet) id SAA26084; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:47:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199601032347.SAA26084@eri.erinet.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Ron Weaver" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:44:39 +500 Subject: Install Help Needed X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Ron Weaver" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: urgent X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 *********************************************** Everyone needs something to believe in. I believe I'll have another beer. ***********************************************