Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:37:03 -0800 From: "David B. Small" <small@haas.berkeley.edu> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'david.small@usa.net'" <david.small@usa.net> Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.2 Installation Lockup Message-ID: <01BD2206.741A7100@FALAFEL>
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My hardware:
Dell Dimension XPS D266 (Pentium II/266MHz, w/AGP slot)
64 MB SDRAM
IBM DHEA 36480 (a 6 GB EIDE hard drive...I know...I should have gone SCSI)
ATAPI Toshiba CDROM Drive (XM-6102B)
ZIP drive (which, surprisingly, the kernel recognizes)
Matrox Millenium II AGP video card (which there appear to be alpha drivers
for for XFree86, but I'm less concerned with Xwindows, than with just
getting this system up)
What's currently on the system:
3 Partitions formatted: C=2.44GB (NTFS), D=2.44GB (NTFS), E=1.11GB (FAT)
Ideally, I'd like to leave C and D, install FreeBSD on the 3rd partition,
and use NT's boot manager to boot the system.
So far, I'm able to boot from CDROM (or from a boot-floppy, either way),
the system permits me to make kernel config changes (which I don't),
proceeds to recognize pretty much all of my storage devices, and then
hangs... with a solid square cursor in the lower left of the screen.
Now I tried to consolidate/synthesize info from my "The Complete FreeBSD"
(which seems focused on 2.1.X), the CDROM I've got (2.2.2), some stuff I
pulled out of the WWW (from the FreeBSD Handbook and FAQ, which are
associated with 2.2.5, I think).
In any case, I have several questions:
1) Is there any chance I'm going to succeed in installing:
a) from this CD-ROM drive?
b) to this EIDE hard drive?
c) to the partition that I've got (which is clealy beyond the first
1024 cylinders)?
2) Do I need to make any kernel config changes when booting?
3) Assuming that I *do* successfully get FreeBSD installed on the right
partition, can I, in fact,
be dropped into Unix before rebooting, so that I can copy the first sector
to a floppy (dd), and
copy that to my first partition, then set up NT's boot loader to boot onto
that?
Thanks,
-David
David B. Small
Personal: david.small@usa.net
Work: dbsmall@ttl.pactel.com, http://www.ttl.pactel.com/~dbsmall
School: small@haas.berkeley.edu
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