Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:08:39 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Horror story Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990313090839.008ded20@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990312193730.24156A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> References: <36E9D60C.F26F86EE@uswest.net>
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Hello, Dan. I have since (before receiving your message) divided the disk into two parts: a 2 Gig primary DOS partition, and the rest for FreeBSD. This is my second hard drive, so the DOS partition is Windows drive D. My first drive is 1 Gig, of which 81 Meg was used by FreeBSD 2.2.8 before. Last night I tried to install FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE via ftp. It did install overnight. I sliced the 81 Meg on the first drive: 20 Meg for swap, the rest I used for /usr/whizkid/sources (wanted to use it, but for nothing important, it is a slow drive). I used the big partition on the new drive (the second drive) for FreeBSD, mounted as / for everything else. I had the FreeBSD boot MBR put on the first drive, and just a non-boot MBR on the second. When I tried to boot this morning, I got F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD, F5 Disk 1 (whatever that F5 means). I chose F2 and got a message about an empty slice. I pressed enter and just kept getting the "boot:" prompt. I tried to type things like "1:wd(1,a)", "wd1s2a", but just kept getting messages that it does not exist. I do not want to reinstall Windows from scratch: I would lose years of data, and I have no problems with my existing Windows installation (besides the usual problem of it being Windows, of course :->). BTW, I used the FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE install boot disk, and simply changed "3.0-RELEASE" to "3.1-RELEASE" in the options menu. I did that because when I tried installing using the two 3.1 boot disks as mentioned on FreeBSD.org, it just froze when stating it was creating rwd1s2a. This is very frustrating: Not only did I lose my original FreeBSD 2.2.8 installation I had on my first drive for months, I seem to have lost the ability to run FreeBSD at all! And the only reason I got the second hard drive was to give FreeBSD as much space as I could, so I could start using it as my primary OS, while keep Windows 95 as a "legacy" OS. BTW, I put full 2 Gig on the Windows partition because I mean to get a recordable CD drive down the road, and I want to have enough space for a CD image that can be read/written to by both Windows and FreeBSD. Adam P.S. You mentioned creating a partition "manually." I am not sure how to do that. At 19:47 12-03-1999 -0800, Dan Busarow wrote: >I suggest that you start from scratch. > >fdisk the drive. Make the first partition 900 meg for dos C:, second >partition 100 meg for FreeBSD /, and the third partition as large as >your BIOS will create for dos D:, the remaining space will be for FreeBSD. >If the third partition eats up too much space with the large as possible >option (didn't leave enough for FBSD) create it manually at some >appropriate size. > >Install windows but no extra programs. >Install FreeBSD >Choose the second partition and put / on it >Choose the fourth partition and put /usr and /var on it. > >When you go back to windows get in the habit of installing everything >on drive D:. C: will fill up as programs happily ignore you and >install stuff in c:/windows even though you told them to use D: --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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