Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:33:20 -0400 From: Steve Gasbarre <SteveG@bright.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: CDROM & DOS Partition FreeBSD installation problems Message-ID: <37672910.27721DDD@bright.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906111500050.21365-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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I've been trying to install FreeBSD for the past week, but have met some problems. Either I missing out on something or some of my hardware is inadequate. During the install I set 800MBs for the FreeBSD partition - and used the default partition settings for /, swap, /usr /var on a secondary 1GB drive. I think the drive is still good, as I haven't had any problems and had previously installed FreeBSD on it, but I messed up the X Windows settings and wanted to start over. The drive also has a 200MB Extended FAT16 partition holding a swap file. I tried to install it to a 2GB partition on the my current hard drive, but I messed up the primary partition settings, but luckily fixed it with fdisk. I decided it was time to throw some money at it since the drive was a only a 4X. (Well, I'll see if it gets returned) I purchased a Memorex CD-482e 48X ATAPI IDE CDROM drive - had a little trouble getting it setup for Win95, but it's working OK. I shut Win95 down to a DOS prompt and started the install from the FreeBSD 3.0 CDROM and it started the installation process, but when it asks where to install from it says it can't find the CDROM drive, even though it's running from it. I chose the generic kernel with wcd (ATAPI support). Any suggestions? I was told that installing from the DOS directory had some problems found the errata - one solution didn't work and I have to try the other one. Sorry for the long winded description, but I do appreciate your help! Thanks! SteveG@bright.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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