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From: sstorkel@actioneer.com (Scott Storkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: First Attempt to Install FreeBSD - Discouraging
Date: Wed, 15 May 96 23:21:23 GMT
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In article <318FC4BF.3BE82C72@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>] Is FreeBSD supposed to be this hard to install? At least this ought
>] to keep the amateurs from playing with it.
>
>With respect, ametuers rarely have two disks in their system;
>certainly to have more than one IDE drive and an IDE CDROM
>drive takes two controllers (IDE is limited to two devices).
>
>The installation notes cover this clearly, but it's obvious that
>you chose to install on a second drive, and then, in violation
>of the installation notes advice, installed a boot record of
>some kind, knowing that it would be installed on the wrong (first)
>drive, like the installation notes warn will happen.
Huh? Where?
I ran into this same problem while installing FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE
from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. I read **ALL** of the documentation
I could find and didn't see these problems documented anywhere!
Since you seem to be well informed, can you tell me where I should
look for information like this?
BTW, I worked around these problems by modifying the FreeBSD
boot blocks. Check out:
http://www.devious.com/freebsd
for my instructions on how to boot FreeBSD using the Windows NT
boot loader.
>In any case, it's quite annoying to see a post complaining about
>the install process without you presenting enough information
>such that someone with more time and patience than Moses could
>walk you through the process clearly documented in the release
>materials, and get your non-standard hadrware configuration
>running.
Funny, I knew *exactly* what the guy was talking about. Unfortunately,
I don't have the time to read this group as regularly as I'd like...
-- Scott
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