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From: kue@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at (Werner Kuehnert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Installing FreeBSD-2.1
Date: 23 Jan 1996 08:58:27 GMT
Organization: Siemens AG Oesterreich, Dept. EZE 53
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Distribution: World
Message-ID: <4e27vj$k10@news.siemens.at>
NNTP-Posting-Host: zerberus.hai.siemens-austria

Hi !

Last weekend I tried to install FreeBSD-2.1 on my computer, but with no success. I
discovered the following problems :
	- when I set the installation media to tape (a SCSI tape drive from Wangtek), the
	  tape drive is recognized during boot, but as the tape drive is winding the tape
	  back and forth, the hardware detection thinks the drive is offline (the SCSI
	  timeout seems to be 15 seconds or so and the is too short for my tape drive :-(
	  is there a way to change this (e.g. by booting with '-c') ?
	- when I start to partition and label my first hard disk (a toshiba 857MB drive
	  with two MSDOS partition on it - one primary 128MB and one extended 64MB) the
	  partition display is ok (except some gaps between the partitions, but this is
	  due to sector (mis)alignement). I have a third partition on this drive (type
	  0xa5 - there was NetBSD-1.1 installed) which has a size of aprox. 664MB.
	  When I start to label the partition, i.e. try to install the necessary slices
	  in the FreeBSD partition (20MB for /, 64MB for swap and the remaining for /usr)
	  only the first (the primary) MSDOS partition is display. When I am so brave as
	  to comit all writes I am lost (as are my MSDOS partitions). The second MSDOS
	  partiton is completely gone and the first MSDOS partition is no more bootable.
	  When I install the old boot block, everything is fine again (as far as MSDOS is
	  concerned), but no FreeBSD.

Is it possible to install FreeBSD-2.1 on my computer _without_ touching MSDOS ?
Any hints are highly appreciated.

	Regards
		Werner

I do NOT speak for SIEMENS.

Werner Kuehnert Siemens AG Oesterreich PSE EZE KBA 1
E-Mail: kue@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at
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