From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jan 9 07:29:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09328 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 07:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09323 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 07:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuart@askone.demon.co.uk) Received: from [194.222.7.179] (helo=askone.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zz0Jq-0003Cd-00 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:28:54 +0000 Received: from asmodean (asmodean.gnqs.org [172.16.1.15]) by askone.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA12319 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:28:48 GMT From: "Stuart Herbert" To: Subject: Installation problems w/ FreeBSD v2.2.8 Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:30:59 -0000 Message-ID: <000101be3be5$0e944460$0f0110ac@gnqs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there! I've just gone through the process of trying to get FreeBSD 2.2.8 up and running on a bog-standard IDE-based PC, and thought someone should know about the following problems I came across. My apologies if these are already known problems. PC Drive Configuration: ----------------------- Primary: o 1 x 3.2Gb EIDE drive, master, 1 partition, Win98 installed o 1 x 3.2Gb EIDE drive, slave , no partitions Secondary: o 1 x EIDE CD-ROM drive, slave, booting from FreeBSD CD #1 Installation Problems --------------------- o First attempt: booted from CD, selected the full visual mode to configure the kernel, went through to deconfigure the drivers, selected Q to save and exit, the screen cleared, and the machine hung. Had to reboot and restart the installation. o Second attempt: decided not to configure the kernel ;-) Got down to option 5 - Novice install. Came to select which disk to install the BootMgr onto. When I selected my master drive (the one without FreeBSD on it), up popped fdisk - why? Exited fdisk, and came to the bit where you create FreeBSD partitions within the fdisk partition. Unfortunately, fdisk pops up with my master drive (the one without FreeBSD on it), and as far as I can see, from inside your fdisk I cannot make it select my slave disk (the one I want to install FreeBSD onto). At this point, the novice installation procedure is of no use to me, and to anyone else who wishes to install FreeBSD in this manner. I'm sure I can get around this using the Expert installation, but I'm sure you'll have plenty of other users who really need the Novice help. Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert S.Herbert@sheffield.ac.uk Generic NQS Maintainer http://www.gnqs.org/ -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message