From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 15:17:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net (phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net [206.80.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CC0A37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 37844 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2000 22:17:19 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 37700 invoked by uid 0); 10 Oct 2000 22:17:17 -0000 Received: from phnx-6400-gw2poolg114.phnx.uswest.net (HELO system) (63.226.50.114) by phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net with SMTP; 10 Oct 2000 22:17:17 -0000 Message-ID: <0a8a01c03307$969d6920$0200000a@system> From: "Kerry Davis" To: Subject: puzzlement Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:15:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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