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To: Tracy Phillips <tphilips@cedar.netten.net>
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Subject: re: installation woes
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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
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