Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:36:58 -0400 From: "Allen, Eric" <AllenEr@nabisco.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Booting from my hard drive Message-ID: <01CB3CD8F39DCF11A6E20001FA3273FD0311FCB7@NS_MSG_TC.nabisco.com>
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To whom it may concern, I attempted to install FreeBSD this weekend from the CDs. I couldn't seem to get the partitioning utility (FIPS? - I'm on the road now so I don't have the PC or Docs in front of me) to come up on my machine so I used DOS-FDISK. This wiped out my hard drive and I was prepared for that and went to my backups. In order to restore my DOS/Window's 3.1 data I booted from a floopy reformatted the DOS partition and copied the data to it. My machine still won't boot from the C: drive though. On the FreeBSD front, I went through the installation process and at the very end it failed because it couldn't recognize the CD. However, the BootManager seemed to have loaded because when I turn the machine on (with no boot floopy) I get a choice "1 for DOS and 2 for BSD" it's when I hit 1 the machine doesn't seem to go anywhere. I expected it to try to boot from the DOS C: partition. Can you help? I will spend more time with the BSD/CD and the manual. The DOS C: boot issue has me stumped though. Please send me any suggestions you may have. My company is talking anounced potential layoffs today so I need to get my PC up to work on my resume. Thanks, Eric Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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