From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 31 2:44: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BCB15171 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 02:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.75]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990531094619.IVAR7869945.mta1-rme@wocker>; Mon, 31 May 1999 21:46:19 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: lkloeble@magic.fr Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:43:37 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: installation problem Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <000701beab45$7b17c100$c8819ac3@oemcomputer> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990531094619.IVAR7869945.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 May 99, at 11:10, Laurent Kloeble wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to install BSD on my PC for the first time and it doesn't work > really. My computer is under Windows 98. I did a partition with Partition > Manager (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/) because FITS doesn't > work (Ithink because of W98). What version of FreeBSD are you using? I don't know why FITS didn't work. Did it give you an error? It wouldn't do anything? What? > I used the two floppies to start the Install. I did the beginner > installation. The programm told me it was some problems and asked to start > again. In order to help, we need to know the details of that problem. > When I reboot I've the following screen : > > FreeBSD / i386 BOOT > Default : 0 : wd(0,a) / kernel > I'm not sure, but did you remove the floppies? And have you seen http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/dual.htm ? It deals with installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 box. It's the same process as for 98. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message