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From: scibp6p@panix.com (Boris Pitel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help needed
Date: 25 May 1994 10:46:27 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Boris Pitel (scibp6p@panix.com wrote:
: Dear friends!
: I am trying to install FREEBSD for the first time in my life ::)
: From hardware point of view I have
: 486 DX2 66 Mhz, 8RAM, 2 HD 340 and 540 Mb, floppy, SVGA, 2 serial ports
: paralel port, IDE controller
:
: Now close to the problem. When I boot from the kcopy-ah, it behaves
: normal - says something, and then asks for file system floppy.
: When I insert the file system floppy an hit any key the result is fast -
:
: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
: trap type =12, code 4
: eip=ffc, cs=ffc, eflag=73f92, cr2=10fbc
: current priority = fffffffff
: panic : page fault
: Hope you can help
: Boris Pitel.
This problem I was able to solve - I just used alternative
kernel image - kc_altwd ( this qay it's called on my CD ROM).
After this I was able to reach the point where BSD asking questions about
hard drives. It offers me to select the type of controller I have, and when
I select IDE ( I think I have IDE local bus VESA controller) - it after
short hesitation says that it is unable to read my disk and am I sure that
the controller is ST506(???). If I answer NO the conversation starts again
(loop), if I answer "yes" - It is asking me about the geometry of my hard
drive. I don't understand does it know that I have 2 HD, and geometry of
which one I should give to it.
If I give the geometry of the 2nd HD - BSD displays part. table - empty,
which is not right, it isnt't empty.
After that it asks questions about how to distribute the available
disk space between different areas of BSD - I think there I am screwing things
up a little bit. It says after some processing and trying to create somrthing,
that "Disk is full" or something like this, and "Please halt the system".
Please help me if possible! I don't know where to go next.
PS.
My ideal configuration is :
Leave the 340 MB hard drive C: as it is - now it has MSDOS, WINDOWS and
other usefull things - I would like to keep this "untouched".
The new 540 HD D: (secondary drive) give to 386BSD.
Honestly, I don't understand where will be the boot manager placed
( it semms to be impossible to make any partition on secondary drive
active - ???).
With hope
Boris Pitel
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