Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:45:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael Hoelscher <mhoelsch@ctc.ctc.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie Install to former NT Server box - questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310104419.14397Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980310071141.008e0d10@ctc.ctc.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Michael Hoelscher wrote: > At 11:42 AM 3/9/98 -0800, Doug White wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Michael Hoelscher wrote: > >>... > >> The above led me to fix my freeze-up problem. But does not answer > >> the question of why the Novice option kept kicking to the main menu. > >> I suspect I may be able to go back an see what happened there > >> once the install completes successfully. > > > >You're using <return>, not <space> to select distributions. Someone else > >had the same roblem last week. > > Not so. I may have missed the Alt-F2 hint, but I readily picked-up on > the <space> requirement. > > BTW...the ftp finally did complete after a number of stalls on crc > errors. But, I'm wondering if I should take another run at it and > try going [A]ll BSD again for partitioning. My gut tells me a dedicated > machine should most likely be less troublesome if the OS has the > whole box. The docs and Help screens seem to suggest this may > not be the case with FreeBSD -- i.e., that it may not care. > Recommendation???? Either/or. I personally prefer dedicating entire disks to one OS, but you can have multiple disks, thus multiple OSs, in the system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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