Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:23:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Patrick M Mucci <pmucci@shrike.depaul.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing from dos partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303132022.20978G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980302073751.15847A-100000@shrike.depaul.edu>
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Please try to keep your messages concise; it's difficult to slog through long messages looking for the important bits. I'll tyr to cut & paste.. > I have a gateway 486, 66 mhz, with a 2.3 gig master drive > and a 1.6 gig slave drive. OK. > my intention is to split the 1.6 gig drive roughly into a 600 meg > primary partion (in dos), and to use the remaining 1 gig > as my free BSD slice. Fine. > when I went on to install xf86, the install progy had trouble > finding it, I got a lot of errors, I switched CD's and attempted > to let the install program find the files... this seemd to > taint the install process, so I eventually had to quit.. getting > the feeling that a full install didnt occur. >From what it looks like below, that's probably the case. Try deleting the FreeBSD slice and start over. 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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