From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 18:44:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E049D16A49E for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:44:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from wmptl.net (mail.wmptl.com [216.8.159.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E061D43D46 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:44:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kA6IgQ1O006477; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:42:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nathan@vidican.com) Message-ID: <454F820D.9030900@vidican.com> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:42:21 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peo Nilsson References: <1162668828.8001.19.camel@zeus.se> <454CF03B.3030005@makeworld.com> <1162724388.6310.1.camel@zeus.se> <454DFB84.5040208@makeworld.com> <1162837215.7705.12.camel@zeus.se> In-Reply-To: <1162837215.7705.12.camel@zeus.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 10.0.0.80 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:44:37 -0000 Peo Nilsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:56 -0600, Chris wrote: > >> At this point - I feel you have a failed install and or broken FBSD. The >> WD 80 gig drive should be of zero issue. I use 2 WD SATA 80 gigger w/out >> issues. >> If your drive is partitioned correctly - GAG will and does boot it well. >> > I downloaded FreeBSD 6.2 BETA-3 and installed it. It works!!! > Now I only wonder what was wrong with the 6.1 Release I couldn´t get to > boot. > There was nothing wrong with disk/partitioning, GRUB boot loader or > anything else with my dual boot setup. I already knew that because I´ve > been dual booting before (last FreeBSD was 5.2). > Anyway....I´m smiling again...:-) > > >> As mentioned many times in this list, seek the handbook for dual booting. >> > I did that, but there was nothing I didn´t already know. > > > Next I will download FreeBSD 6.1 Release again, this time from another > mirror than the first time. This to find out if there´s something wrong > with > the one I first downloaded from ftp.sunet,se. > > Thanks for the help! > > man md5 .... All mirrors contain the same files. Errors do however occur, and the possibility of a bad download does exist (hey - it's not a perfect world). That's what MD5 checksums are for; to verify that the file you downloaded matches that you were expecting to... all the ISO images afaik have MD5 checksums (see: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/CHECKSUM.MD5 or mirror). Simply check the file for consistency before you use it - really, this is a habit you should get used to. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com