Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:24:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Linux (and bootblocks) Message-ID: <19990720092427.J72885@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37931080.C5917A44@giovannelli.it>; from Gianmarco Giovannelli on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 01:48:16PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4> <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> <19990719095612.41282@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990719172747.A72625@freebie.lemis.com> <37931080.C5917A44@giovannelli.it>
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On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 13:48:16 +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >>>> *whole* lot better than UnixWare, but so far everything has been. >>> >>> Wow, I tried that yesterday, it took _hours_! >> >> But it worked at the end? It didn't like my Dell Latitude at all. > > I installed it in 10/15 minutes, but when it reboots (and I think I was > finished everything ) ... the hell begin :-) > > dselect is , like you said, an expert stuff only... and even if I am not > a newbie anymore I was quite in bad waters when I have to choose the > pkgs... Not because I don't know how to install, but because the dselect > interface is , IMHO, bad and cryptic... > > I'd like to open another topic: > Why bootblock won't boot any Linux installation except Debian ? It boots my RedHat 5.2 just fine. > I am now at seaside, with a modem and I can report my configs... > > This is my drive : > seaside:/tmp# fdisk -t wd0 > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=1247 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=1247 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > start 63, size 8193087 (4000 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 509/ sector 63/ head 254 > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 8193150, size 8177085 (3992 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 510/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1018/ sector 63/ head 254 > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) > start 16370235, size 3389715 (1655 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 1019/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86) > start 19759950, size 273105 (133 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 That looks pretty much the same as mine, except for the order, which a trial installation of UnixWare screwed up. Did you know that RedHat 5.2 claims you can't use more than 127 MB of swap? > So there are 4 primary partitions, but the boot block which boot0cfg -B > wd0 installs is not able to boot linux other than debian 2.1. > > I have tried: > Redhat 5.2, 6.0 > Suse 6.1 > Slackware 3.6 > TurboLinux 2.0 > Caldera 1.3 > Stampede Linux > Debian 2.1 > > (a little OT to say thanks to Jordan for been able to make the best > install I have seen. FreeBSD is far better than all these , it's easy > and simple...) Agreed. I was surprised how bumpy the RedHat installation was. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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