From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 14:52:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA18370 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:52:47 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA18360 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:52:45 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa04789; 20 Jun 95 22:34 +0100 Received: from wind.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa28699; 20 Jun 95 22:34 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 22:14:43 Message-ID: <134@wind.demon.co.uk> From: Jason Tanner Organization: Shortwave Systems Limited Reply-To: jt@wind.demon.co.uk To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Installation problems. X-Mailer: Newswin Alpha 0.7 Lines: 65 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello! I recently bought the FreeBSD CDROM from Walnut Creek. Version 2.0. (about a week ago in fact) and I am having a few problems with it and was wondering if you could offer any suggestions. I followed the installation instructions (I think). I used the provided dos utility to repartition my hard disk such that my DOS one was 401MB and the FreeBSD one would be 115MB. I created the boot floppy and cpio floppy. Set the disk geometry using the FDISK utility on the boot floppy to 1048 cyl 16 head 63 sect (= 516 MB) and edited the partition information as recommended in the instructions. I wrote out the boot record and the O/S boot selector stuff. I then used the DiskLabel utility to edit the slices and assign mount points. I then proceeded. Doing AltF2 revelaed no errors. When I booted I was presented with the F1 (DOS), F2 (FreeBSD) menu. F1 works fine butF2 simply access the hard disk and then returns to the menu. Rebooting with the boot floppy does usually take me back to the installation utility but after a variable number of attempts (when trying to investigate the problem) eventually caused an init failure then a panic message. My system configuration is: Gateway 2000 P5-90 (90Mhz Pentium) 16 MB Ram 516MB IDE Hard Disk. AMIBIOS Matrox Video Card 17" Monitor. The pertinent BIOS setup info is: Cyln Head Sect Size Drive C: Type AUTO-CONFIG 1048 16 63 516MB Drive C: Timeout 5 seconds IDE DMA Transfer Mode : Disabled IDE Multiple Sector mode : Disabled IDE LBA Translations : Enable DOS FDISK Info is: 1 fixed disk Partition Status Type VolumeLabel Mbytes System Usage C: 1 A PRIDOS FAT-DISK 401 FAT16 78% 2 Non-DOS 115 22% Jason. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Tanner | Internet : jt@wind.demon.co.uk Shortwave Systems Limited | Compuserve: 100012.423@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------------------------------