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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!mongol.sasknet.sk.ca!news@mongol.sasknet.sk.ca From: Groo the Wanderer <kuzko@sk.sympatico.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 and WIN95 install problems Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:14:33 -0800 Organization: Homegrown Logic Works Lines: 53 Message-ID: <32914239.40DE@sk.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: wulf47.sk.sympatico.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E-SYMPA (Win95; I; 16bit) I am trying with limited success to install Win95 and FreeBSD on my computer. I have a 1.6G and an 800 MB hardrive. Drive Geometry 3148/16/63 & 1647/16/63 I try to create a 100MB slice for WIN95, then a 96MB slice for FreeBSD then 1100MB for WIN95 then the rest for FreeBSD with all of the second disk for FreeBSD. Install goes fine but then on boot when I select F2 (the first FreeBSD slice) it does nothing (it may spin up the hard drive but that's it). WIN95 (F1) boots fine. Partitions are: wd0s1 DOS 100MB wd0s2a / 32MB wd0s2b <swap> 63MB wd0s3 DOS 1100MB wd0s4e /proj 253MB (approx) wd1s1e /usr 810MB I have tried various other combinations and this worked (I thought) but on reinstalling due to some other problems it won't work. Can anyone see something obviously wrong? After partitioning the disk with FreeBSD I then install WIN95 which trashes booteasy so I have to reinstall FreeBSD. Any advice on this and can I just reinstall booteasy without installing FreeBSD? I have a NEC IDE CDROM (made for DELL). Once I get FreeBSD up, I can configure the kernel and it works fine but I've tried Master and slave combos with no luck to install from the NEC. I also have a Pinnacle Micro RCS and is there any way to get FreeBSD to just use it as a scsi read only cdrom? I understand that it won't work as a read/write drive for now. On booting from the install disk, my keyboard locks up and I have to unplug and replug it. Any hints on this? I have a #9FX Motion 771 video card (IRQ 11 is used for this) Adapatec AHA 1520A adapter set to IRD 10 If anyone can shed any light on these problems I would truly appreciate it as I have run out of things to try. I can provide more information if anyone has an idea but needs detail. Please e-mail any ideas to kuzko@sk.sympatico.ca as I don't get on the net too often and might miss a news posting (particulary if I trash my machine for an extended period again trying to install this combo). cheers don kuzenko