Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:53:35 +0000 From: John Kelly <john@nua.ie> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Oh-my, its so difficult to install ! Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981123125327.0090be00@pop3.nua.net>
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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 <john@nua.ie> 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
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