Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:42:22 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "William J. Manning" <wmanning@flash.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I would like to run FreeBSD.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961227133939.15745A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199612270135.TAA09457@endeavor>
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On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, William J. Manning wrote: > Hi, > Let me describe my system: > CPU: 133 MHz Pentium, Gateway 2000 > > Memory: 32MB > > Disks: 1: 1.2 GB Hard drive, Western Digital, IDE - Master > 1: 340MB Hard drive, Western Digital, IDE - Slave > > CD-ROMS: 1:6X CD-ROM, Wearnes, IDE - Master > 1:1x, CDU 33A, Sony, Sun Moon Star controller card. > > OSes: Windows 95 installed on the 1.2 GB Hard drive. > > History: I received a copy of FreeBSD 2.1.5, Walnut Creek CD-ROM with > installation guide (Christmas you know). I first tried installing from a > floppy/CD ROM. After creating the boot disk, I rebooted my system. When the > floppy based boot process reached the "Boot: (short pause)" the system went > into an infinite loop printing the following line: "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0". This is a bad floppy, or a bad rawrite. To fix such a thing, take a *new* floppy, format it on the same machine you'll read it on, and use rawrite under DOS (not Win95 DOS mode), to be on the safe side). > I then tried booting from the CD ROM. This process allowed me to > partition my 340MB hard drive and make several configuration choices. > However, I was unable to select my CD-ROM drive as my installation media. I > received the following error message: "No CD-ROM found on the system". This means that the CD-ROM was not recognized. You have a good chance of it working if you switch it to be the slave on the primary controller, and the second disk to be the master on the secondary controller. Also, make sure both controller (wdc0 and wdc1) are recognized in the boot probe. > I then tried (can you say "desperation") to build a minimal configuration > by copying the /DIST/BIN and /DIST/FLOPPIES directories from my CD to a > small DOS partition on my 340 MB drive. This allowed my to successfully > build my FreeBSD system. However, when the system rebooted the boot manager > failed to prompt me for which operating system to load. It just booted up > Windows-95. HELP!! You should install the boot manager (BootEasy should be fine). To do that, boot DOS (not Win95 DOS mode) and run bootinst.exe from the tools directory on the CD. > > Goal: I would like to install FreeBSD onto my 340MB hard drive and have the > boot manager prompt me for which OS to boot! Is this possible? It is. > > Thank, > William > > PS. My educational back ground: Graduate student in mechanical Engineering > (with an interest in Computer Science). Any help.... > > Nadav
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