Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:14:15 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> To: Jeff Hobson <jhobson@kc.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent to support@freebsdmall Message-ID: <7cbadc8704111023144d4659d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <003001c4c7ac$028ddb50$1501a8c0@Patsy2> References: <003001c4c7ac$028ddb50$1501a8c0@Patsy2>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:06 -0600, Jeff Hobson <jhobson@kc.rr.com> wrote: > I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machi= ne to FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose us= e all the disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what to place= where. I creates the necessary partitions/filesystems (/, var,swap and /us= r) on what I assume to be the 4 windows partitions already existing. It the= n proceeds to install the system and I answer all the questions and the dis= k flashes and the cdrom blinks for about an hour. It finally finishes and r= eturns to the sysinstall screen. I exit and it says it will now reboot. It = does. INTO THE WINDOWS 2000 SYSTEM!. I took a look at the disks and there i= s not a trace of the FreeBSD filestructure or files. ANYWHERE!!. I am very = puzzled. It looked like all was going just fine. but for some reason, the f= ilesystem was written to some other planet or the installation aborted and = restored all the previous filesystem (there was no message to indicate that= happened). I am, what I consider, a very experienced computer systems anal= yst. Up until this time, I have never seen this happen with any install bef= ore. I am sure that I have done/overlooked some critical step that somehow = bypassed the system install and never made the machine into the FreeBSD box= I wanted. >=20 > Any ideas? Any further information I can provide to investigate this? Tha= nk you for your help and attention. >=20 Very odd. If you run fdisk on Windows2000 do you not see a non-dos partition anywhere where perhaps FreeBSD was installed ? Did you remember to set your partition as bootable by FreeBSD when you selected to use all disk space ? You could always try using fdisk to delete any/all partitions first then install FreeBSD. Good luck. Nelis
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