Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:52:25 +0530 From: "Subhro" <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: "'Jeff Hobson'" <jhobson@kc.rr.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent tosupport@freebsdmall Message-ID: <41931341.283aff5f.1c29.0019@smtp.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <003001c4c7ac$028ddb50$1501a8c0@Patsy2>
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------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C4C7ED.4B3D6D70 Content-Type: text/plain; Well this is really odd, But what you can try to do is, not go for the automatic install. Instead first manually clean up the slices (partitions whatever) and then go back to the automatic install. Although personally, I would anyday prefer a custom install than a default one. Regards S. Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Hobson Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:35 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent tosupport@freebsdmall I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machine to FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose use all the disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what to place where. I creates the necessary partitions/filesystems (/, var,swap and /usr) on what I assume to be the 4 windows partitions already existing. It then proceeds to install the system and I answer all the questions and the disk flashes and the cdrom blinks for about an hour. It finally finishes and returns 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 is 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 filesystem 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 analyst. Up until this time, I have never seen this happen with any install before. 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. Any ideas? Any further information I can provide to investigate this? Thank you for your help and attention. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C4C7ED.4B3D6D70 Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="smime.p7s" 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