Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:57:05 GMT From: john@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk (John Murphy) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: my temporary imperfection Message-ID: <36eee99d.468307@smtp.freeserve.net>
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Hi. I do like a challenge but the territory seems so alien to a very new bie. My own fault I guess, without knowing the difference I bought 3.0 Release, thinking it was bound to be better than 2.2.8 Stable. I wish I'd got the complete version with the book. Oh well. I've two pcs, and a different set of problems on each, but I wont ask for answers here. I'm just saying HELLO and listing a few solutions/sugestions. My main pc has a large (10.5Gbyte) HD and a removable 850Mbyte drive as slave on the same IDE port with fbsd on it. I chose the dual boot feature, but when I tried to boot up later the bios reported "Not found any [active partition] in HDD". MSDOS fdisk fixed that ok and on the next boot I was offered the choice of F1 ... ??, F2 ... ?? or F5 ... disk 2. I found that pressing F1 gave me a dos prompt and "win" got windows going. F2 limbo land and F5 was same as F1 except that after closing down and re-booting I'd have to run MSDOS fdisk again and reset my main drive bootable. In tools on CD1 of the 4, I found bootinst.exe (Booteasy?) Ran it and answered yes to everything, and on pressing F5 F1 hooray up came Free BSD! However when I tried windows the next day it went into MSDOS compatibility mode, requiring the deletion of the NOIDE key in the registry to get it working properly again. This hasn't happened since. Probably because I remove the fbsd drive before running windows. I still have to do the fdsik thing after every fbsd session. I'll probably put up with it until I become more advanced and figure out how to upgrade the boot blocks (after doing an ELF upgrade/make world of course). Something I found most useful is that changing the shell to tcsh gives access to previous commands by pressing the up arrow. Now I only have to type /stand/sysinstall, or whatever, once, and it's remembered. I only discovered this today so I don't know if it remembers after a shutdown. Probably does. I may have to resort to questioning fbsd-questions for an answer to the next problem, though I've seen the question go un-answered there, so there's not much point. When trying to run xcircuit, xfig, xdtm, xfishtank or xpaint, an error /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 :Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found. Something to do with ldconfig I'm guessing, or because I'm only semi-ELF :-) I guess I _am_ hooked though. -- Thanks for reading me, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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