Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:15:24 -0700 From: "Kerry Davis" <kedavis@uswest.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: puzzlement Message-ID: <0a8a01c03307$969d6920$0200000a@system>
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According to readme.txt and install.txt that I read from the FreeBSD 4.1 CD-ROM that I got, what I'm doing should work. In fact, it's specifically recommended. And yet it doesn't work, and other people tell me not to do it. I started out by installing DOS in a small (200 meg) partition on the first drive (IBM 2 gig SCSI, on a Qlogic 1080 card), along with IDE CD-ROM drivers, which is how I read the readme.txt and install.txt files. Then I created the 2 boot/install floppies from makeflp.bat (which is an issue to me right there: why can't there just be a DOS install program on the CD? seems like that couldn't be any more difficult than putting together the 2-floppy "bootstrap" thing), and booted from those Everything seemed to go more or less okay, as it looked. But after the installation is completed, my system won't reboot. Even if I change the boot sequence to C: Only, it goes through the POST stuff, then goes to the floppy drive and stays there. Other people tell me that I should just get rid of the DOS partition and use the whole drive for BSD. But considering the "documentation" that I got on the CD, specifically recommends keeping a small DOS partition "for emergencies", why doesn't it actually WORK? Kerry Davis Phoenix, AZ kedavis@uswest.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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