Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 17:59:57 +0800 From: Breaker <breaker@nw.com.au> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with installing FreeBSD via DOS Partition. Message-ID: <354D919D.EF4408E9@nw.com.au>
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Hello, :) This email is regarding the problem(s) I've been having trying to install FreeBSD-2.2.5 Release from a DOS partition. I have the following computer: [Irrelevent items such as Video cards skipped] Intel Pentium-II 233 Overclocked (83Mhz Bus speed) to 291Mhz. 64MB Gold Plated SDRAM. Abit LX 6 Motherboard. Quantum Seagate 3.2Gig HDD. 24x TEAC CD-ROM. About a month ago, I formatted my hard drive, and took into consideration the fact I was planning to install a *nix OS in the near future. My main drive, assigned the letter C, was formatted to take up 90% of my 3.2Gigs, which rounded out to be about ~3080MB. The remaining 270MB or however much was there, I set aside as an unformatted partition for my installation of the *nix OS when I came around to it. I have downloaded the neccessary directories (including /bin) from the FreeBSD FTP site. In the current setup, what I have done is formatted via FDISK a ~23MB DOS Partition out of the 270MB I had set aside and made this an extended DOS Drive. I have also set 100% of this as a logical DOS Drive. I have copied the /bin directory onto the newly created D: drive, so the drive contains the structure D:\FreeBSD\bin - where the /bin files are located. I have made a boot disk that works properly and I have no problems getting into the setup. Now here's where I get onto my problem. Everything sets up fine through the 'Novice' installation procedure untill I get to the point where I am asked "Are you sure you want to install ? Yes/No". After selecting yes, a number of boxes come up with installation procedures (only briefly though, I'm just telling you this to give an idea how far it gets). It gets to the "something something Holographic Shell VT4" or something like that, and after that screen goes away, the big error message I get is: Error mounting DOS Partition /dev/wd0s2 : Invalid argument (22) (100%) I keep getting this error message, and I was wondering if you could give me any hints on how to set up my partitions so that it installs properly. Just as a side note, C: drive is a FAT 32 drive, and if anything, I'm *pretty* sure D: is a FAT 16 Drive. I run Win95 on C: and I'm not real keen on having to eat into its partition for anything. I've tried a few different ways of putting the partitions and I think this is an internal FreeBSD conflict because I usually like to figure things out myself and don't give up until I usually do figure it out, or determine it too hard to figure out :) I'm not a newbie, so if you need any more feedback about info on my system or anything else that works/doesn't work during the installation process I'd be happy to tell you. I've just about given up and I'm sending my problem here as a last resort. Hope you can find a solution :) Regards, Trent -- Breaker on IRC (DALnet) Trent Nelson in Real Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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