From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 18:11:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D89414E74 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 18:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a057.otenet.gr [195.167.115.57]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA12187 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 04:11:25 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 1952 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Oct 1999 01:12:49 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing from DOS partition References: <3808E22A.1C24B44@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 17 Oct 1999 04:12:48 +0300 In-Reply-To: Jean-Mark Dupoux's message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:38:03 +0100" Message-ID: <86ln92n627.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jean-Mark Dupoux writes: > the install routine after the first floppy boot seemed to be running > normally, but when it came to transferring the system files from the > dos partition, after the various configuration / slice allocation > screens, the app came back with an error message, > saying "You will have problems booting from this hard-drive". Could you post some more details about your setup, mainly about the slices you have created, the disklabels in them, etc. ? It would certainly be easier for those of us who can help you to actually do it in that case... -- Giorgos Keramidas, "That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears." [Geoffrey Chaucer, 1328-1400] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message