From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 23 11:23:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC42E37B407 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from whitt38@home.com) Received: from cx769463a ([65.15.39.236]) by femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010623182317.SKSB13081.femail8.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx769463a> for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:23:17 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Rod Whittlesey" To: Subject: Major install confusion Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:23:39 -0400 Message-ID: <002301c0fc11$a092e940$ec270f41@rocky1.ct.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a Maxtor drive that has Windows 98 on it already. I went out and bought Partition Commander after I somehow wiped out my hard drive the first time I tried to install. When I start the pc, an HP 233 mhz I get a screen asking which partition I want to boot from. Fine, this is what I want, the new FreeBSD partition was created. When I boot with the install CD, sysinstall automatically starts and I can get to into the FDISK partition editor but my new partition doesn't show up. There is what looks like almost the entire disk, and then a 9 meg slice that doesn't correspond to the 3 gig slice I had set up with Partition Commander. In The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey there are other options, but I am being check-mated on all of them. My 1.44M floppies all say they can hold 1,457,664 bytes but BOOT.FLP and KERN.FLP are each 1,474,560 bytes (20k more than the floppies), so I can't copy them. I tried RAWRITE too but it gets to a certain point and says something about a bad sector (Scandisk says there are no bad sectors). I think it really ran out of space. There are references to INSTALL.EXE and VIEW.EXE that could be run from a Microsoft partition. They're supposed to be on the install CD but don't exist. (pages 29 and 69). Has anybody run into any of these problems? Where would I find the Install.exe and/or view.exe files? Thanks for any help you can give. Rod To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message