Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:51:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Larry Mascarenhas <lmascare@phlfs.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960322104725.1431D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603220021.TAA04358@sas.phlfs.com>
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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Larry Mascarenhas wrote: > 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. I'd keep an eye on that buslogic. They don't exactly win lots of praise around here. > The problems I am facing are "panic: bad dir" when I try to install FreeBSD on > the 2nd drive. Could you identify more specifically where the error occurs? Some context would help to isolate the problem hardware, if that is the problem. > 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. Sounds like hardware, unless your boot floppy was corrupted. Have you considered buying a SCSI CDROM for that box? It would make this install MUCH faster and easier. > 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. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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