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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 1996 20:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Trung Lam <Trung_Lam@smtp.rc.trw.com>
Cc:        questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing Questions. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960701205416.228R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <n1375879029.57789@smtp.rc.trw.com>

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On 1 Jul 1996, Trung Lam wrote:

>      After I changed  from C drive to CDROM drive, I typed "view" to executed
> the software and a "FreeBSD 2.1.0 Directories" displays. Then, I selected
> "install.bat" from this FreeBSD menu and press "Enter", I receive an error
> message is "EMM386: unrecoverable privileged operation error #00 - press Enter
> to reboot". I reboot my computer and make a FreeBSD 2.1.0 installation boot
> floppy by selected "makeflp.bat" from the FreeBSD menu and I got a  FreeBSD
> boot floppy. 

So far so good.

>      I reboot my computer with a FreeBSD 2.1.0 installation boot floppy and it
> took a while to boot up. After it boot up, an installing window displayed and
> I selected "Custom" to installed. After I selected "Custom", another window
> displayed and asked which hard drive I would like to install the FreeBSD
> 2.1.0, "wd0" or "wd1" ? I selected "wd1", since I have two hard drive in my
> computer (C drive and D drive). My C drive is 1.2G and D drive is 1.6G. The D
> drive is empty, it doesn't have any file at all, since I just install this
> hard drive to run the UNIX Operating System FreeBSD 2.1.0. This hard drive
> also format and partition with DOS. After, I selected "wd1" and press "Enter"
> , nothing happen, the software go back to the installing menu and asking the
> same question that I had answer before. 

<SPACE>, not <RETURN>, to select the [ ] wd1 checkbox.  I think I made 
that mistake four or five times last time I ran sysinstall :-)

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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