Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net> Cc: Yang Wu <yawu@ic.sunysb.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question ! Message-ID: <XFMail.970611134955.ron@cts.com> In-Reply-To: <19970610032405.45449@peeper.my.domain>
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Sorry to butt in, but I have a wonderful suggestion. Procure a copy of the new FreeBSD book (someone help me with the title). Ideal for the newbe as well as a reference for the more experienced FreeBSD user. $49.95 on the book store shelves and (I assume) directly from Walnut Creek CD-ROMs. BTW, the book includes the two-CD-ROM 2.2.1 distribution. The ideal gift for those who are willing *and* able to RTFM! Ron McDaniels "I'm getting too old for this nonsense..." On 10-Jun-97 Tom Jackson wrote: >>On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 02:44:56PM -0400, Yang Wu wrote: >> W.C.CDROM, >> >> I installed FreeBSD 3 times. >> I reserved 500Mbytes for it(D drive), and the first time when I >> install it (by INSTALL ) the message says the disk is full. The > >first of all, you don't install freebsd to the d: drive. You install it >to a free partition, preferably on your first hard drive. 500 mb is fine >for basic install with source omitted. > >> second time even made the PC dead and the hard drive remained spinning. The >> only thing I can do is turn off the power. The third time, unfortunately >> , I can't retrive those compressed files after I installed the kernel. > >slow down, if you have a dos boot floppy, boot it and enter fdisk /mbr. This >will return you to a clean dos boot sector at the start of your disk. Get >dos/w95 working first, make sure to keep 500 mb free from w95. Then make a >freebsd boot.flp from your freebsd cdrom. Make sure it boots up and watch >carefully the hardware probes for any problems. >> >> It seems that FreeBSD doesn't work stably on my PC. After all >> of this, I format my hard drive again, while FreeBSD had changed my boot >> sectors' information or some other system's records. I can't run win95 > >freebsd didn't do this. You have become befuddled and shot yourself in the >foot ;). You might describe your hardware for potential problems. You >really need to read the documentation provided on the cdrom. > >> normally now! The PC is crashed, and the fixit.flp doesn't help much. >> Do you have any idea about how I can restore my system (low-level format >> or any other way to do it)? >> >> Can I return the CDROM to you and ask refund of it ? >> > >Most definitely you can, but are you giving up that easy? > >> >> >> Yang Wu >good luck, email to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org any problems, there are >plenty of people at this mailing list willing to help you. Try to make your >subject line a little discriptive > >-- >Tom Jackson I'm ProChoice->FreeBSD >toj@gorilla.net http://www.freebsd.org ---------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 06/11/97 Time: 13:34:47 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------
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