From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 04:50:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA10997 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 04:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.nua.net (ns.nua.net [194.106.137.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA10991 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 04:50:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@nua.ie) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.nua.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) id MAA06599 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:57:18 GMT Received: from dhcp11.merrion.nua.net [195.7.46.11] (HELO galaxy) by gatekeeper.nua.net via smap/NoRelay; id xma006594; Mon, 23 Nov 98 12:56:58 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981123125327.0090be00@pop3.nua.net> X-Sender: john@pop3.nua.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:53:35 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Kelly Subject: Oh-my, its so difficult to install ! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have purchased FreeBSD 2.2.7 along with Greg Lehey's manual. I have at home on my PC an 8 gig drive partioned with FAT16 into 4 slices. Windows 98 is the main operating system with no 32-bit FAT conversion. I also have a secondary master disk, 1.7 gigs and this is solely for FreeBSD. I boot up on the CDROM and install on [x]wd1 and not []wd0, I use the A and S options i.e. use all the disk and set bootable, I then select the automatic installation for the labeller program and a few options like x-windows etc, the installation gets completed and it tries to reboot but finds no valid disk. Now because I've tried this on a number of occasions, the bootmanager gives me this option on startup, F1...DOS F5....DISK2. If i select F1, Windowes 98 boots, if I select F5, the system will hang and the boot manager makes the wd0 partition inactive and I need to boot off a floppy, run FDISK and set it back to active again. Can I get rid of Bootmanager ? Can I just boot on a floppy and run a Free-Bsd flavour of Autoexec.bat and boot from WD1 ? I am extremely looking forward to your reply. JOHN Kelly ( PS We use Free-BSD for our Servers, Intranet/E-Mail/Internet etc, here in NUA in Dublin Ireland, it's rock solid. I need to become familiar with it as I 've just started here and come from a Windows background ) _________________________________________________________________________ NUA: Internet Consultancy & Developer http://www.nua.ie/ John Kelly Tel: +353-1-676-8996 Fax: +353-1-661-3932 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message