From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 20:58:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00488 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00476 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA25405 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24083; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 23:42:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 23:42:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: System Administrator cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199612020228.VAA06087@mail.blink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Help I am trying to install free bsd > on my computer but have run into some problems. > I get everything installed ok except I cant > seem to get the partition info right. > it either comes up and does nothing, > or, it says no operating system or > if I choose to use the boot manager, it > pops up and does nothing. in the installation, > what should the setting for the bootable partition be? You should send this to questions@freebsd.org you will get quick responses from there (usually) On your boot drive you need to have / or you need to build your kernal special. my part info / 48M swap 128M /var 48M /usr allelse(1700M) one drive with a 100meg dos partition in front. FreeBSD could not get the geometry right for the drive without the 100meg dos partition because I didn't turn off stuff in my adaptec bios. (someone told me this I cannot verify) 100meg dos is a primary active partition. 1900med fbsd is bootable. booteasy was installed. works fine.