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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 10:08:16 +0200
From:      Jochem van Ommen <165866ho@student.eur.nl>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   trouble installing
Message-ID:  <3928EAEF.36437C81@student.eur.nl>

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Hi,

I'm seem to have trouble installing FreeBSD 3.3. I just bought the Power
Pak (I know, things come a little later in Holland), and things are not
going the way I'd want them to go.

Installation goes fine, I get to set everything the way I want it, but
when everything's installed, I'm sent back to the Main Installation
Menu. The only choices there (in my opinion; Am I not looking good
enough?) are to start a new installation together with the possibility
to change some config, or to Exit Install. So I reasonably tend to
choose the latter, when all install is done.

When I do so, the system reboots, and nicely gives me the Boot Manager I
asked for. When I select FreeBSD, the message "no ufs" appears, and I'm
sent to the "boot: " prompt. Typing "-v" after the prompt will result in
another

no ufs
no /kernel

message.

I own a 486 DX/4-100 with 16 Mb RAM, a Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM 2Mb, a
1.44M floppy drive, a Iomega ZIP100-drive, a genuine doublespeed Mitsumi
CD-ROM drive attached to my Gravis UltraSound Classic (which is located
at 220h) through address 360h. Windows 95 is installed, and works the
way it is expected to work.

I have a 3.2 Gb harddisk, divided by the Ontrack Disk Manager into a 2.1
Gb partition, a 850 Mb and a 250 Mb one. (DOS C:, D:, and E:)

I used Partition Magic To Reduce C: (2.1 Gb) to 20 Mb, because Windows
95 is on my D: drive, and since the system boots from C:, it has to have
the information on C:. So I now have about 2 Gb left between C: and D:,
which Windows or DOS will not notice.

The partition editor recognizes everything, so you'd think everything
would go fine. Installing apparently goes well, but when rebooting,
FreeBSD doesn't find the UFS filesystem.

Do you have any thoughts on what's going on?

sincerely,

Jochem van Ommen

Rivierstraat 188 Rotterdam
3016 CH - the Netherlands

+31.10.4405.295

165866ho@student.eur.nl




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