From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 15:28:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:28:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marlin.corp.gulf.net (shana@marlin.corp.gulf.net [198.69.72.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06041 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 15:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shana@marlin.corp.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (shana@localhost) by marlin.corp.gulf.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA09410; Mon, 11 May 1998 17:27:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:27:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Shana To: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 installation Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The lines should be wrap now. I apologize. >Please elaborate. What happens if you select `BSD'? If I select F2 for BSD, It just returns the prompt again with F?. I've tried a few different keyboards, wondering if my F2 key was just messed up (always start simply, right?). but to no avail, the boot manager prompt just returns F? again. > You created a FreeBSD slice, yet the whole thing is formatted FAT. FreeBSD requires it's own slice type and uses it's own filesystem. Please clarify. Ok, I fdisked the entire drive, and divided it into two partitions, giving them both FAT16. Then installed NT, leaving the other half of the drive blank. Then booted my machine from the 2.2.6 boot disk, created the BSD slice with its own file allocation system (165 if I remember correctly), and went on to create the / , /var , /usr directories. I hope this makes more sense, my brain is a bit scrambled at the moment. ~Shana To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message