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Date:      Mon, 31 May 1999 21:43:37 +1200
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        lkloeble@magic.fr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installation problem
Message-ID:  <19990531094619.IVAR7869945.mta1-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <000701beab45$7b17c100$c8819ac3@oemcomputer>

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On 31 May 99, at 11:10, Laurent Kloeble wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I'm trying to install BSD on my PC for the first time and it doesn't work
> really. My computer is under Windows 98. I did a partition with Partition
> Manager (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/) because FITS doesn't
> work (Ithink because of W98).

What version of FreeBSD are you using?

I don't know why FITS didn't work.  Did it give you an error?  It wouldn't 
do anything?  What?

> I used the two floppies to start the Install. I did the beginner
> installation. The programm told me it was some problems and asked to start
> again. 

In order to help, we need to know the details of that problem.

> When I reboot I've the following screen : 
> 
> FreeBSD / i386 BOOT
> Default : 0 : wd(0,a) / kernel
> 

I'm not sure, but did you remove the floppies?

And have you seen http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/dual.htm ?  It deals 
with installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 box.  It's the same process as for 
98.
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