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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Failed 2.1.6 Installation Date: 8 Dec 1996 07:28:35 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <58dqn3$df9@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <32AA41F9.46CD@nwlink.com> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva2.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <32AA41F9.46CD@nwlink.com>, cjay <cjay@nwlink.com> writes: >Hola! > >I am a UNIX newbie/M$ quasi-guru. > >Upon downloading the /bin, /doc, and /manpages directories from the >RELEASE 2.1.6 directory of ftp.freebsd.org (cdrom.com) I made the >appropriate(?) directories on my "C:" drive (a 1.6 seagate). Those It's been reported here several times that the MSDOS filesystem driver is busted, it cannot mount DOS disk partitions larger than 512MB. I don't know if this is fixed yet. Mounting a DOS partition larger than the limit trashes the BSD filesystem. >directories were called C:\FREEBSD\BIN, C:\FREEBSD\DOC, >C:\FREEBSD\MANPAGES by me as that is what they should be called to the >best of my understanding of the various installation guides available on >www.freebsd.org, INSTALL.TXT in the REALEASE 2.1.6 directory, etc. > >I am attempting to install to my "D:" drive (a 540 Maxtor). I blew out >all existing files on that drive and repartitioned it with a 1 meg >primary DOS partition and nothing else. (this drive has some bad blocks >at the end of it). > IDE drives have bad sector tables in them that should automatically update, thus presenting a perfect disk to the user. You might have to run the Maxtor-supplied IDE "formatting" utility to force the defect map to be updated? In any case, if you have any bad blocks, you absolutely must use bad144. To enable this, when creating the partition in the installation program, enable bad sector scanning on it. During the installation the machine will at one point scan the disk and set up the table that bad144 uses.