Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:41:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: chrismar@mail.eclipse.net (Chris Martino) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problems Message-ID: <199804091541.KAA16202@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.980409104045.17815A-100000@mail.eclipse.net> from Chris Martino at "Apr 9, 98 10:46:06 am"
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In a previous message, Chris Martino said: > Okay let me clarify a few things so I know what do do differently later > tonight. > > Oh, we did defragment last night before re ran anything, and we till > ended up with 354 meg D partition. That's interesting. I only used fips once. Maybe it split the available space in half. I'd have to look at the manual for it. > Ok, so once we make the D drive delete it using the FDISK on the DOS side > or the one you use once you begin the installation? And the 1st thing we You can delete the extended partition/logical partition from either DOS or FreeBSD's fdisk, doesn't matter. Just be sure to leave the primary DOS partition. > do with that drive it delete it, so it can be used for FreeBSD... Okay > that make sense now. > The rest I can follow I think. I just am wondering which fdisk you are > talking about. Either one will remove the partition. But obviously, you need FreeBSD's to make it's partition. > Anyways, I'll let you know how it turns out! > > Thanks alot!! > Chris > __ > > +-----------------------------------+ > | Chris Martino, Support Technician | > | chrismar@eclipse.net | > +---+-----------------------------------+---+ > | _ _ _ | > | ___ ___| (_)_ __ __ ___ _ _ ___| |_ | > | / -_) __| | | '_ \_-< -_)_| ' ` -_) _/ | > | \___\___|_|_| .__/__/___(_)_|_|___|\__) | > | |_| Eclipse Internet Access | > +-------------------------------------------+ > | (800) 483-1223 -=- http://www.eclipse.net | > +-------------------------------------------+ > > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > In a previous message, Chris Martino said: > > > To Whom it May Concern: > > > > > > Now, my question to you is, from what I tell you does it seem like we did > > > anything wrong? I don't know what happened so I hoping you can tell me > > > some ideas to try. As far as I know he is doing a restore of > > > Win95 tonight and tomorrow we are gonna start totally from scratch. > > > > You did a lot of things wrong. > > > > If Win95 said there was 640 meg free, and fips only came up with 384 meg, > > then you probably should have defragmented the drive first, that would have > > cleared more. > > > > Next, fips made this D: drive for you. That's the partition you wanted to get > > rid of in fdisk and install FreeBSD into. Sounds like you may have hit 'a' in > > fdisk to use the entire disk. I'm not sure how you did that without first > > deleting the DOS partition. Maybe fips failed, but it doesn't sound like > > it since you rebooted a couple of times. > > > > I've never used the install.bat. I've always made a boot floppy, so I can't > > say what the problem was with the booting problems. > > > > The "F1... BSD" prompt was boot easy, telling you you had only one partition > > on the disk, but when > > > > Ok, tonight, make a boot floppy. Boot from it, run novice. Create FreeBSD > > partition. In disklabel, choose 'a' for Auto defaults for all. This may not > > be what you ultimately want, but it gets you started learning Unix. Then > > choose what you want installed. > > > > > > > > -- > > "Five left and cut or I waste everyone in first class." > > --Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj > > > -- Skydivers : people who can't fall down often enough To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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