From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 06:25:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA15632 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 06:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA15627 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 06:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA130198 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 13:25:32 GMT Received: from unknown(205.253.0.215) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smarY4Dmb; Fri May 10 13:25:30 1996 Message-ID: <319343C2.3D43@aptpcs.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:25:22 -0500 From: Jeff Genender Organization: APT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Big problems X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Be prepared... this is a long question with many sub-parts. I have finally installed FreeBSD and have managed to get it to boot and run off of my sd1 drive through the Windows NT boot manager. I am able to log into FreeBSD and work with it. However.. I am having several problems and was wondering how to fix. Let me start by telling you my system: Gateway 2000 Pentium 90Mhz 40M Ram 1 Gig EIDE Drive as C: Drive with DOS/Windows NT/WIndows 95 - Primary DOS ATAPI EIDE CD-ROM Adaptec 1542CF SCSI Adapter (sd0) 1 Gig Conner SCSI drive as drive D: with Extended DOS (sd1) 1 Gig Seagate SCSI drive partitioned the first 600M as NTFS and the remaining 405 as FreeBSD. Problem 1 --------- I would like to install XWindows but can't because I cannot get the CD Rom to mount. I rebuilt the kernel and removed the comments for ATAPI and the wcd0. When I try to mount the CD, I get a 'Device not Configured' (Yes, I did have a CD in the CD ROM). No luck. Any ideas? Problem 2 --------- Related to problem 1. Since I could not install off the CD Rom, I decided to copy the files to my C Drive in the \freeBSD\X86312\ directory (oh and I tried several other directory combinations as well \X86312, \FreeBSD\DISTS\X86312, trust me, I tried them all) and ran the sysinstall program to install X. Nope. It couldn't install from DOS. Why? Problem 3 --------- Related to problem 2. Since I could not install by the sysinstall program, I decided to try it manually. So, I decided to mount the MSDOS drive. When I did it gave me some sort of error that cluster size did not match something or other. However, it still mounted. I went to look at the drive and when I did an 'ls', it listed the files and a lot of other files kind of like : ??????.EXE. At any rate, I started to tar the files and ... BOOM! Panic - UFS_LOCK: Recursive something or other. Reboot. Problem 4 --------- You guessed it. Related to problem 3. I let the computer come up in DOS and decided, well maybe its and IDE-BIOS-FreeBSD-Geometry problem. So, I copied the filed to my D drive (sd0). Did the usual, tried to install by the sysinstall - didn't work of course. So I tried it the manual method on this drive. I tried to mount sd0 and as soon as I did... BOOM... Panic. I forgot the error on this one.. I think it was the UFS_LOCK one again. What happened? Why couldn't I mount the scsi extended Dos drive? Problem 5 --------- Related to number 4. The computer reboot itself and began its boot process. When it got to mounting /rds1a (I think this is what it tried to mount - or something to that effect), it hung. I had to press the reset key. I tried it again. It hung. I now cannot get into FreeBSD. Can I fix this? Can I do it with a fixit disk? or do I need a full reinstall? If I can fix all of the above problems, you have another big FreeBSD supporter. However, I have been trying to get this to work for over a month and am getting really frustrated. If anybody can point me in how to fix all of the above problems (with number 5 obviously being first), I would be eternally grateful. Sincerely, Jeff Genender jgenend@ibm.net