Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 14:37:58 EDT From: m-ke0082@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Ken Estes) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation problems Message-ID: <9506061837.AA18558@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU>
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I am trying to install free bsd on my home computer. I have had no end of problems with it. I am using a fresh CDROM from wallnut creek (spring 95 I think). I think the problems may be related to the fact that when I assign mount points a 20 MB / b 40 MB swap e 20 MB /var f 900 MB /usr they do not save correctly. (ie I save them then reread them and they are gone) The partitions themselves are saved but the mount points go away. I can reboot my machine off this second disk installed as above but after it recognises the devices, then it is unable to find / a panic insues and we get another reboot. It is interesting to note that although I type hd(1,a)/kernel at the prompt I get a reply of hd(1,a)/kernel, hd(0,a)/kernel before it boots. I thought I could save problems by putting / on my primay disk this did not help. I only have 20 MB free on my primary disk I put / there and put the rest on my second disk ( swap in b and /var in a and /usr in e). When I rebooted I got an error about too many (sectors, cylinders, heads, I do not remember exactly) but it cut the number from 32 to 16 then hung. I have been unable to use the fixint program it seems to always reboot then hang on the cpio disk. I am unable to use my linux partion from your boot loader it just hangs. (when I get this installed I would prefer to use the linux LILO loader to load all OS is this possible? I know linux seems to recognise FreeBSD better then FreeBSD recognises linux) Ken Estes
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