From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 8 16:36:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA26646 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lib1.subr.cmq.com (mail.subr.cmq.com [206.112.93.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA26639 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 16:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Southern (johnsona.subr.cmq.com [206.112.93.101]) by lib1.subr.cmq.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA03558 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 18:36:39 -0500 Message-Id: <199705082336.SAA03558@lib1.subr.cmq.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Johnson@subr.cmq.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:55:26 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Help on installing FreeBSD X-Confirm-Reading-To: Johnson@subr.cmq.com X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello!!! I need help installing FreeBSD 2.2.1 I have Gateway P120 with a Toshiba IDE CD-ROM drive and 1.6G of hard drive and a 3.5inch floppy drive. I have an internet connection through an ISDN line. I have also acquired partition magic and created three partitions on my hard drive. Drive C: primary partition running Dos 6.22/Win 3.1, a hidden primary partition running Windows 95 and an extended partition which is a logical drive D: with about 205MB on it. I wish to install FreeBSD on drive D. I have already visited the ftp site at Virginia Tech and copied most if not all the bin distributions on about 15 floppy disks. Now my problem is I have made a boot floppy disk with the installation instructions and the kernel of FreeBSD on it using the fdimage boot.flp program. If I boot the computer with the boot disk I get the installation process which shows me the disk geometry indicating, I have about 5 partitions on the drive one FAT partition type, one OS/2 partition type, two unused partitions which are relatively small in size maybe about 3MB each and the extended partition which I created by an earlier program, I still want to use my other installed operating systems and I do not want to use the dos fdisk type partition program to partition my entire disk like it is showing in the drive geometry, because I am afraid I would all previous data, if I create a freeBSD partition on the unused partitions I get only about 1MB allocated to freeBSD or else nothing is created if I allocate more space than neccessary to the unused partitions and if I try to create a freeBSD partition on the extended partition, I get the message saying the partition is in use. and then I get errors saying that there were errors in the installation preparation and I can't seem to get around this one. Well let's say I am in a loop sort of. Please can anybody who has done a similar thing or just have a better idea how I can go about installing FreeBSD on my PC, help me.. Any help would be greatly appreciated Johnson Kudzo Baton Rouge, Lousiana.