Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 22:44:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Shana <shana@corp.gulf.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511224232.2295B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980511171701.9111A-100000@marlin.corp.gulf.net>
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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Shana wrote: > <snipped for your protection> > > The lines should be wrap now. I apologize. > > >Please elaborate. What happens if you select `BSD'? > > If I select F2 for BSD, It just returns the prompt again with F?. I've > tried a few different keyboards, wondering if my F2 key was just messed up > (always start simply, right?). but to no avail, the boot manager prompt > just returns F? again. Ah, classic geometry problem. Try booting it from a boot floppy by typing `wd(0,a)/kernel' at the Boot: prompt. (odd having a geometry problem on the same disk tho ... hm ...) > > You created a FreeBSD slice, yet the whole thing > is formatted FAT. FreeBSD requires it's own slice type and uses it's own > filesystem. Please clarify. > > Ok, I fdisked the entire drive, and divided it into two partitions, > giving them both FAT16. Then installed NT, leaving the other > half of the drive blank. Then booted my machine from the 2.2.6 boot > disk, created the BSD slice with its own file allocation system (165 if I > remember correctly), and went on to create the / , /var , /usr > directories. I assume you deleted the second partiton and created a new slice in it's place in sysinstall then, otherwise you'd have, oh, a 3MB partition to stick this all in :-) 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
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