Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 02:25:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Michael MacKinnon <mackinnon.m@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Hell... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005080217570.77608-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <000f01bfb8be$67490940$92597318@rct1.bc.wave.home.com>
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I never really get into the guts of the disks. I have so far stuck to Western Digital for IDE drives and Seagate for SCSI. I simply know that they have good warranties and that they are supported by FreeBSD and Linux easily. I really do not know much about the geometry issue. I would still tend to think it is a hardware issue, but not sure what it could be if is dying the same place every time. Are you giving it enough space for each partition? Is your cd drive fully supported? I know that FreeBSD may boot off the cd, but after it gets going it may need to use a FreeBSD driver, and that is where you may have problems, but I think you are already past this stage. Hmm... I am not sure how much more help I can be. Sounds like a real puzzle to me. Perhaps you can write up a description of each step so I get a better picture of it in my head. I been doing installs of mostly FreeBSD form cdrom for almost 2 years now and have worked through some of the hard times. I have also done installs of recently released Linux distros which are so easy to complete. (Caldera is easy, but they all mess up X) If I better understand what you are doing I may be able to help. Post it on the list with a different subject like, "Installation Trouble," to try to get the attention of more list members. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? On Mon, 8 May 2000, Michael MacKinnon wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > As I mentioned below, I've already tried three different HDs, though. > (10GB, 4GB, and 400MB) > > Are you familiar with Award BIOS (circa 1998)? Is there some funky > setting that has to be shut off before Linux or FreeBSD can put their > file system on it? > Is there a particular geometry that I have to use (LBA, CHS (or normal), > or Large settings) for the hard drive? FreeBSD Install seems to find the > normal settings > just after kernel configuration but displays the LBA settings in the screen > that partitions the disk. > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks > Mike. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> > To: Michael MacKinnon <mackinnon.m@home.com> > Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 8:52 PM > Subject: Re: Install Hell... > > > > I would have to say it is a hardware failure. Try with a different > > hard drive. You tried it with two different systems, FreeBSD and Linux > > and it did not after many tries. > > > > You must be pretty sure it is not the software. Now you have to > > troubleshoot the hardware. > > > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Michael MacKinnon wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > I've been trying to install FreeBSD for about two weeks > > > now, and I've been having absolutely no luck whatsoever. > > > > > > I'm trying to install version 3.1 from the Walnut Grove CDs. > > > > > > Everything appears to go just fine until it tries to set up > > > the files system (when it uses the newfs command). > > > Then I get page faults, lockups, and reboots (oh my!). > > > Any changes I try to make just seem to leave me with a different error > > > in the same place. > > > I've even tried to install Linux and it fails on the filesystem,too. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Details on my system: > > > > > > Celeron 466 > > > Award BIOS > > > 32MB RAM > > > ATAPI CD-ROM / DVD player (Pioneer) > > > 10 Gig Western Digital HD > > > (also tried a Maxtor 4Gig and a Maxtor 400MB) > > > > > > Extra question: > > > should I use LBA, Normal, or Large in the BIOS? > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any help... > > > Michael MacKinnon > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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