Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tracy Phillips <tphilips@cedar.netten.net> Cc: install@freebsd.org Subject: re: installation woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970122163152.7369P-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32DECD3E.361C@cedar.netten.net>
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Tracy Phillips wrote: > I installed freebsd onto my second harddrive and then booted with a dos > boot disk and changed the active partition to my first harddrive > (windows95), then i tried to boot again with system commander nothing > happend. > i tried to boot from the boot disk nothing happend. What did you try, exactly? > i used > linux fdisk to create four partions for freebsd on my second harddrive. > i installed freebsd mounting the partions in this order / <swap> /var > /usr. What? For clarity: a SLICE is an entry in the DOS "partition" table that's edited using DOS FDISK. a PARTITION is a part of the SLICE you've allocated, under which a filesystem (like /) resides. FreeBSD requires one SLICE and one only. I hope you didn't mean that you created a separate slice for each filesystem. Also Linux disklabel will absolutely positively not work, so stay away from it. > so getting peeved at this point (getting a boot prompt but not actually > booting the system) i decided to see if i could install freebsd on my > first harddrive from my 3rd harddrive which has the dos partition. > everything installed fine and i rebooted got the boot prompt, hit enter, > and freebsd booted without a problem just like its supposed to. Cool! > is there anyway to put windows95 onto another drive beside the first > one? what does lba, normal and large mean in the bios setup, do these > have anything to do with me not being able to boot from the other > drives? I would think you can, I haven't ever installed Win95 myself so I can't say. Those access modes you want to *LEAVE ALONE* if it's working fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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