Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:37:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Rob K <robks@eircom.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010905213056.Y25528-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c13671$2e11b000$14a7869f@oemcomputer>
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Hi Rob, On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Rob K wrote: <snip most of a veeery long line> >FreeBSD requires a primary partition I used fdisk to try and create a >primary partition but it told me that there was already a primary partition >and would not allow me to create another. You'll still need a primary partition. If you don't have a utility like Partition Magic, use fips from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-RELEASE/tools <another long snip> >I tried to boot from the kern.flp disk despite the fact that I had >no partition available to install FreeBSD but it did not work. What error message did you get and on which floppy did you get it? Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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