From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 10 10:45:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:45:40 -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 KAA22231 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:45:15 -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 KAA14546; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:45:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:45:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Hoelscher cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Install to former NT Server box - questions In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980310071141.008e0d10@ctc.ctc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Michael Hoelscher wrote: > At 11:42 AM 3/9/98 -0800, Doug White wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Michael Hoelscher wrote: > >>... > >> The above led me to fix my freeze-up problem. But does not answer > >> the question of why the Novice option kept kicking to the main menu. > >> I suspect I may be able to go back an see what happened there > >> once the install completes successfully. > > > >You're using , not to select distributions. Someone else > >had the same roblem last week. > > Not so. I may have missed the Alt-F2 hint, but I readily picked-up on > the requirement. > > BTW...the ftp finally did complete after a number of stalls on crc > errors. But, I'm wondering if I should take another run at it and > try going [A]ll BSD again for partitioning. My gut tells me a dedicated > machine should most likely be less troublesome if the OS has the > whole box. The docs and Help screens seem to suggest this may > not be the case with FreeBSD -- i.e., that it may not care. > Recommendation???? Either/or. I personally prefer dedicating entire disks to one OS, but you can have multiple disks, thus multiple OSs, in the system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message