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From: gmann@haven.ios.com (Glen Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install help...
Date: 1 Apr 1996 22:49:09 GMT
Organization: Phrantic Physics
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Brian Watson (doc@marlin.gulf.net) wrote:
: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my PC. I have a P90 w/16MB and 3 IDE
: HDs, a 730MB, 1.2GB, and a 528MB in that order. The first two I want to
: keep for DOS(Win95) and the 528MB I want to devote to FreeBSD. I spent
: weeks reading all the documentation I could find. Then I went to install it
: from Walnut Creeks CDROM. The installation goes fine until I confirm that
: I'm ready and it does a few things, then on "Loading the root image" it
: locks up. I tried a few more times and the same. So I figured it must be
: my CDROM. So I copied all the distributions to my hard drive and selected
: the Install from HD option. The same lockup ezactly. I tried both root
: floppies and neither worked. I dont have any unsupported hardware (at least
: none I want to use w/FreeBSD). I used "X-User" for the dist set. It did
: however install the boot manager but its only got one option "F1 . . . dos".
: If ANYBODY can offer ANY help I'd really appreciate it. Ive read and
: re-read the docs until I'm blue in the face...
: Thanks in advance,
: Brian Watson -- doc@gulf.net
I alway had much better luck putting the root partition on the first
drive; kinda scary resizing the DOS partition at first, but I always had
problems with the boot mangler and root on secondary IDE.
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gmann@haven.ios.com
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