Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:13:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: support@ns.computer.net (Technical Support) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Message-ID: <199606121813.LAA06442@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960612053838.2422A-100000@ns.computer.net> from "Technical Support" at Jun 12, 96 05:42:13 am
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[ ... unable to link /kernel into place ... ] You don't say which version you are trying to install. If it's 2.1 or earlier, and you specified that you wanted to write the fdisk or disklabel information, this is probably the problem; you have to let the install write it for you instead of writing it yourself from inside the utilities off the menu. If your system is running *only* FreeBSD on the disk, you will probably want to boot with a DOS floppy, do an fdisk/MBR to blow the boot record, run fdisk to remove the BSD partition, and then reinstall. If you do this, do *not* install the boot manager and do *not* say "write" for the fdisk or disklabel from the menu. This is all covered in the handbook (which you can get at on www.freebsd.org using a web browser). If you run DOS at all, it's not safe to fdisk/mbr, since you might also have OnTrack or other software that you would destroy. You might already have destroyed tis software by installing the boot manager from the install disk instead of installing it using the DOS install program after booting DOS> Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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