From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 16:26:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28990 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28985 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from power.phlfs.com (power.phlfs.com [165.160.251.99]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id QAA19897 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:25:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by power.phlfs.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA11762 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:19:52 -0500 Received: from sas.phlfs.com(165.160.252.2) by power.phlfs.com via smap (V1.3) id sma011760; Thu Mar 21 19:19:45 1996 Received: by sas.phlfs.com (8.6.12/1.35) id TAA04358; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:21:08 -0500 From: lmascare@phlfs.com (Larry Mascarenhas) Message-Id: <199603220021.TAA04358@sas.phlfs.com> Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 19:21:05 EST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL10] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Folks, I have purchased FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM & am in the process of installing it on my Micron Millenia Plus system. The system is a Pentium 133 with 16Mb RAM, a Buslogic 946c SCSI controller & 2 Conner 1Gig SCSI drives. The problems I am facing are "panic: bad dir" when I try to install FreeBSD on the 2nd drive. I tried installing it on the 1st drive as well with no success. The 1st drive has Windows95 on a 900 Mb partition & I tried to setup both root & usr & swap on the 1st drive. I even tried formatting the hard drives & installing FreeBSD only. Spoke to Tech support who suggested that I create a small DOS filesystem & then load FreeBSD, but to no avail. I am booting from the floppy & have created the fixit diskette. I can only install from floppy. "view" does not work for me at all. I did a newfs on the 130Mb partition on the 1st drive & that worked. The boot manager has been installed correctly as it gives me the boot prompts. Any help installing FreeBSD will be greatly appreciated. I am also a Unix Systems Administrator with extensive experience on Sequent Dynix/ptx as well as SCO Unix, so feel free to ask me to do anything technical (I hope). TIA Larry Mascarenhas ----------------- Systems Administrator CSC Networks / Prentice Hall in NYC E-Mail: LMascare@phlfs.com Tel: (212)463-4794 Fax: (212)807-9092