From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 08:41:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA15041 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA15033 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA00242; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:41:18 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:41:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ron Weaver cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Help Needed In-Reply-To: <199601032347.SAA26084@eri.erinet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Ron Weaver wrote: > Dear Questions, > > I'm having a *small* problem installing FreeBSD and could use a > suggestion or three. I am attempting to install 2.1, and am having > what I see as boot sector problems. I get "missing Operating System" > when I boot. Use FDISK to mark your Windows 95 partition as `active'. During the FreeBSD install it marks itself as active -- but somehow that gets lost, hence your problem. The above simple solution will fix it. > > What I got : > new Zeos Pantera 133 (yes!) 16 meg ram > 2 WD31600 (1,6 gig) drives > CDrom, Diamond Stealth 3400, Creative labs AWE32, Colorado T1000 > 28.8 modem, WIN95 (pre- and re- installed ;-| ) Nice rig. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major