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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        E Walk <fluke123@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I can't install FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626105045.25008g-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980626051249.10131.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, E Walk wrote:

> I was going to use my D drive for the UNix and the WIndows 95 on the C. 
> I tried to use the dos fdisk, but it didn't work. FDISK wouldn't let me
> split the hard drive.  Do you know why? 

FDISK won't split drives, but FIPS will.  FIPS is included on the FreeBSD
CDROM or in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools.

>                ANother thing is when I try to install Unix, I get stuck 
> at probing, you  know when the blue screen comes up and it says that its 
> probing.  I read that I can scroll up and down using the Scroll Lock and 
> I did and all I can do is scroll which told me that the computer didn't 
> freeze but it wasn't moving either.  I waited 30 minutes but it just 
> stayed there. Do you know why?  I have a pent.II 300, 64 mb ram, and 4.1 
> gb.

If you have a Zip drive, try removing it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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