From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 27 13:58:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21437 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21291 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA16801; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:00:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marc Smith cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <01bd289b$9bebb680$14b08cd1@computer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Marc Smith wrote: > Ok, heres what I am trying to do. I have Win95 installed curently on my > machine, I wanna install FreeBSD too. I have a 3.2 GB hard drive and a > 500 MB hard drive. Windows is installed on my 3.2 GB hard drive. I wanna > devote my 500 MB drive just to FreeBSD. I had SystemCommander installed > before I tried installing FreeBSD. I tried starting up FreeBSD in > SysCommander and it looks at the A:\ drive and says "read error" and > just sits there and does nothing. Please help me out! Thanks for your > time. SysCommander has a known bug that is not compatible with FreeBSD. Try unintalling it and installing booteasy from the CD. Grab boot.bin and bootinst.exe from the CD and run bootinst. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major