From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 18:40:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C1137B423 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA11624 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:10:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:09:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Pat Dey-Olson Subject: Disk partitioning on laptops (was: Making boot floppies (was: BSD Powerpak 4.0)) Message-ID: <20000827110935.D90379@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39A7FDF3.F927A52C@frontiernet.net> <20000827095438.A29986@wantadilla.lemis.com> <000701c00fc5$78a7a300$1ddaf6cc@6vpp30b> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <000701c00fc5$78a7a300$1ddaf6cc@6vpp30b>; from polsong@frontiernet.net on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:23:53PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 26 August 2000 at 20:23:53 -0500, Pat Dey-Olson wrote: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > On Saturday, August 26, 2000 7:24 PM, "Greg Lehey" wrote: >> On Saturday, 26 August 2000 at 12:27:15 -0500, Gary W Olson wrote: Are you Gary W Olson? >>> Why aren't the boot floppies included in the package like Linux >>> distributions have? >> >> I haven't seen any Linux distributions with floppies. I'm sure they >> exist, but the ones I've received all come only with CDs. Nowadays >> most computers can boot directly from the CD-ROM, and that's so much >> easier than using obsolete technology like floppies. >> >>> Quite frankly, creating the floppies have been such an unsuccessful >>> problem that I am considering abandoning BSD. >> >> Quite frankly, if that's such a problem, you should abandon BSD. It >> won't be the last problem of that magnitude that you'll experience. > > Red Hat 6.2, Caldera 2.3 and 2.4, Suse 6.1, Corel Linux, and > Mandrake 7.1 have all been installed on my Laptop. ALL distributions > have a boot disk included. Even though the bios was changed it > would not boot from the cd, I had the same problem with Linux. Ah, this is the first time you mentioned it's a laptop. We had some problems a while back with some broken BIOSes which caused a valid bootable CD to fail to boot. Yes, that's unfortunate. > As far as the "Magnitude", it was not hard to create the disk with > view on the desktop. Hmm. That's not what you led us to believe above. > The current problem is when the system reboots it gives a No /kernel > message. What's next? How about describing what you did? Did the installation complete without errors? Are you sharing with some other operating system? If so, which boot selector are you using? > The laptop is a Toshiba with 160MB ram, 6.2 gig IBM drive, > 3Com-Noteworthy card (is not a Wincard). But it is a modem, right? We'll look at that later if necessary. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message