From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 07:09:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA17550 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:09:03 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA17533 ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:08:53 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA04852; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 22:08:39 +0800 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 22:08:38 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "How to install 2.0.5R" tutorial wanted. In-Reply-To: <199506151225.NAA00329@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I think it can be safely said that, largely, 2.0.5R is easier to install > that 2.0R. However, there are also some new concepts being introduced > here and it's already been noted that the 2.0.5R installation isn't > entirely fault-tolerant when it comes to users coloring outside the > lines. I think one of the most commonly asked questions is, "Can I keep using my old partitions?" At first glance it appears that FreeBSD recognizes existing slices, but then for some reason you get the "Missing operating system" or "Partition is out of reach from bios" message when you try to reboot. The disk geometry works perfectly well on a pre-2.0.5 system, but for some reason, you need to use MS-DOS to wipe everything out and redo the partitioning from scratch. I know I'm not alone with this problem (and I needed to do this with all the machines here). If the existing partitioning works, why should the user be forced to redo everything? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org