Date: 10 Feb 95 11:34:24 EST From: "Jeffrey J. Sick" <71672.2550@compuserve.com> To: BSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Install Message-ID: <950210163424_71672.2550_DHN121-1@CompuServe.COM>
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Hi there, I just received the FreeBSD 2.0 CD from Walnut Creek and I ran into a snag already. First a plus (you probably know already) Hardware compatibility does not mention the Adaptec 1510 SCSI Adapter, but when I booted with the floppy the devices on the card were correctly identified. Here's my problem, I can't get past the boot-up sequence from the disk made when I made the BOOT Disk and the CPIO Disk (the batch file is written wrong for creating the disks <g>). The boot up goes through all the hardware indentifying everything it can find and then comes to a point where it says: wd1: changing size of 'd' partition from 819520 to 820352 and then hangs. Or.. does this take an extremely long time? I let it go for an hour on one try before giving up. 'D' drive was empty at the time, freshly fdisked and formated. I also tried running it with no partitions on that drive in which case it would say that it was changing the partition from 1 to 820352. Here's my hardware: Intel 486 DX 50 (not DX2) with 8 megs RAM VLB Stealth 24 Video DFI VLB Controller with: 3.5, 5.25 floppies C Drive, Western Digi 540 drive (set up as 528, I wasn't going to play with drivers to get 12 megs) D Drive, Maxtor 420 Drive Adaptec 1510 SCSI2 Controller with: Mountain Filesafe 1200+ Micropolis 640 meg drive (big ol' ugly monster that you can fry an egg on) Sound Blaster 16 Multi-CD Mitsumi CD-ROM (soon to be back on it's own card again) Do you have any suggestions as to why it was trying to change a partition without asking? Any way I can get around it? I'll probably run into other problems down the road but I'd like to at least get started. Or did I do something wrong already. (Look into that crystal ball) . I'll send any info if you want it, I know what it's like to do support, I'm the IS Network Tech here at AirSep. Jeff
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