From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 12:32:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03165 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ns1.ww-interlink.net (ns1.ww-interlink.net [209.12.11.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03160 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:32:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pdgregg@ww-interlink.net) Received: from ww-interlink.net (s11.usr-spartanburg.ww-interlink.net [209.12.10.206]) by ns1.ww-interlink.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA13811 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:32:31 -0500 Message-ID: <345A415B.9E23C22B@ww-interlink.net> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:36:44 -0500 From: Paul Gregg Organization: Tech Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: free BSD2.2.2 install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Trying to install freeBSD2.2.2 on AMD 486 133 system with award bios. Have atapi cdrom but using the install from dos partion option. Have two ide hard drives Drive 0 is 233 meg drive 1 is 1 gig. I have tried various settings in bios for 2nd drive. Setting up without partitions or with and various settings in the partition setup in the install procedure have pretty much same results. Unable to mount root. I would like to set up with 1st drive as dos and 2nd as all bsd without partitions. Is this normally possible? have tried various geometry settings and looked at pfdisk readouts. Documentation for setting geometry from pfdisk is rather sparse, in particular no indication as to what what be the most successful route to pursue. Notes as to what physical is and should be??? Some sort of user friendly utility for determining correct drive setup prior to install would go a long way toward making this operating system easy to install. Thanks Paul