Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:23:39 -0400 From: "Rod Whittlesey" <whitt38@home.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Major install confusion Message-ID: <002301c0fc11$a092e940$ec270f41@rocky1.ct.home.com>
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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
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