From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 13:20:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07230 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:20:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate.isltd.insignia.com (mailgate.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.16.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07218 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:20:23 -0800 (PST) X-Address: Insignia Solutions plc., High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 1JU, UK X-Telephone: +44 1494 459426 X-Fax: +44 1494 459720 Received: from ferrari.isltd.insignia.com by mailgate.isltd.insignia.com (5.65c8/UK-2.1.ISL) with SMTP id AA23275; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:20:15 GMT From: Kevin Quinlan Message-Id: <6399.9602162120@ferrari.isltd.insignia.com> Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:20:15 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have struggled with this for a bit, and I reckon that I am in need of some help now. I have a Pentium 100 system, with an Award BIOS and a BusLogic BT-946C SCSI controller, to which I have attached a Seagate Hawk ST31230N and a Seagate Barracuda ST32550N and a PanaSOnic CR-504-B CDROM drive. I have made a boot floppy and it boots correctly and can see all the devices. While using the Novice install option, I cannot set the geometry of the first (Hawk) drive correctly, according to the manual it is 3992/5/103, but this is not acceptable to the FreeBSD Fdisk program. (I can't set the geometry of the Barracuda either, but that drive is not necessary for the installation) If I force a partition using the whole disk and hence getting a geometry of 1/1/1 the installation will proceed - although unable to allocate any swap space before the kernel panics. If I make a small DOS partition, it gets a little further (51% of /bin installed on minimum configuration) before a page fault panics the kernel. It looks like I may not be configuring the swap properly, but I cannot see what I can do different. I am pretty much stuck here - do you have any ideas on how I can proceed? Regards Kevin Quinlan -- (Kevin Quinlan) Kevin.Quinlan@isltd.insignia.com Kevin.Quinlan@insignia.co.uk