From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 12:46:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA22991 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:46:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22985 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:46:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06589; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:41:14 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:41:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Duane R. Hall" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 2.1.0 and MSDOS and FIPS In-Reply-To: <313BBDA5.3F62@arn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Duane R. Hall wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD on a 200 meg partition on my second > harddrive. I repartitioned the drive w/ fips. Now Freebsd will not > install. It sometimes can't find the root.flp and other times it errors > out with a wierd error on the bin.?? files. Total different errors are > about 15. I am really interested in FreeBSD but if I can't figure it > out I will be forced to go w/ linux. (I know it works). Please help. The errors you are receiving would be quite helpful, as well as what method you are using to install, and other machine details. Installing from a FIPSd DOS partition may not work, I think that is what you are running into. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major