Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:49:54 -0600 (MDT) From: TERRY ALVIN MARK <terrya@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <199608122149.PAA04748@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>
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Hi, I hope this will turn out to be a dumb install error, and not hardware related. I have been trying to install 2.1 on a system cosharing with windows 95, [Dell Dimen XPS 133C] IDE drives two separate both 2G with an IDE CD-ROM. Couldn't get tha atapi.flp to drive the CD-ROM. I tried initially to install FBSD via a DOS partition to the second disc, (which didn't work). Then I defragged the first disc, split it with FIPS equally and then tried to install into the second half of the disc. This gave a error message along the lines of "can't install root distribution". I read somewhere that the root partition has to end before 1024 cyl, so is this the problem? - I am going to redo FIPS to keep the root below 504MB. However I don't know why FBSD couldn't go on the second drive. I was also going to get 2.1.5 boot floppy to see if this will enable me to install 2.1 from IDE CD-ROM - will that work? cheers mark
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