Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:14:27 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Andrew Hilliard <a.hilliar@worldnet.att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INSTALLATIONM ON A HP PAVILION 8670C Message-ID: <3F783033.6050404@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <000801c38609$d3d4eb80$6400a8c0@HILLIARD1> References: <000801c38609$d3d4eb80$6400a8c0@HILLIARD1>
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Andrew Hilliard wrote: >Hi, > >I am haviing the worst time trying to install FreeBSD >on a HP Pavilion 8670C.It has ATAPI CD-ROMS >and when I attempted to do an installation >of FreeBSD with version 4.7 of the software >it failed. I attempted to do an installation from a >MS-DOS partition and thatb also failed. >The softwae error message was that it couldnot swap >to the swap space I created for it through Partition magic. > >Thank you > >Andrew Hillard > I don't know why you'd need to create a seperate swap space with Partition Magic. I'd recommend creating one slice with PMagic and then use the sysinstall program to allocate space for /, /var, /usr, and swap. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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