Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 21:20:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Kevin Quinlan <Kevin.Quinlan@isltd.insignia.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <6399.9602162120@ferrari.isltd.insignia.com>
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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
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