From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 10 08:48:45 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA23601 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:48:45 -0800 Received: from dub-img-2.compuserve.com (dub-img-2.compuserve.com [198.4.9.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA23595 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:48:43 -0800 Received: by dub-img-2.compuserve.com (8.6.9/5.941228sam) id LAA05281; Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:48:02 -0500 Date: 10 Feb 95 11:34:24 EST From: "Jeffrey J. Sick" <71672.2550@compuserve.com> To: BSD Questions Subject: Install Message-ID: <950210163424_71672.2550_DHN121-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I just received the FreeBSD 2.0 CD from Walnut Creek and I ran into a snag already. First a plus (you probably know already) Hardware compatibility does not mention the Adaptec 1510 SCSI Adapter, but when I booted with the floppy the devices on the card were correctly identified. Here's my problem, I can't get past the boot-up sequence from the disk made when I made the BOOT Disk and the CPIO Disk (the batch file is written wrong for creating the disks ). The boot up goes through all the hardware indentifying everything it can find and then comes to a point where it says: wd1: changing size of 'd' partition from 819520 to 820352 and then hangs. Or.. does this take an extremely long time? I let it go for an hour on one try before giving up. 'D' drive was empty at the time, freshly fdisked and formated. I also tried running it with no partitions on that drive in which case it would say that it was changing the partition from 1 to 820352. Here's my hardware: Intel 486 DX 50 (not DX2) with 8 megs RAM VLB Stealth 24 Video DFI VLB Controller with: 3.5, 5.25 floppies C Drive, Western Digi 540 drive (set up as 528, I wasn't going to play with drivers to get 12 megs) D Drive, Maxtor 420 Drive Adaptec 1510 SCSI2 Controller with: Mountain Filesafe 1200+ Micropolis 640 meg drive (big ol' ugly monster that you can fry an egg on) Sound Blaster 16 Multi-CD Mitsumi CD-ROM (soon to be back on it's own card again) Do you have any suggestions as to why it was trying to change a partition without asking? Any way I can get around it? I'll probably run into other problems down the road but I'd like to at least get started. Or did I do something wrong already. (Look into that crystal ball) . I'll send any info if you want it, I know what it's like to do support, I'm the IS Network Tech here at AirSep. Jeff