Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:41:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Eric Kylstra <erick@accessone.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install errors with FreeBSD 2.1.5. Help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961205113454.8339H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9612050549.AA08002@pulm1.accessone.com>
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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Eric Kylstra wrote: > My machine is a P100, 32MB RAM, 2 1.2GB hard drives on the 1st IDE, a > 4X CDROM on the 2nd, and a floppy tape drive (Colorado 700). The Colorado isn't supported, BTW. > A bit more detail on my steps: If I use the boot disk I can't get the > darn thing to recognise my IDE CD-ROM. Put the CD either on the slave position on the primary controller, or single on the secondary controller. > If I use the install batch from DOS it will see the CD, but when it > tries to put in the slices I tell it to it will only put in the stuff on > the 2nd hard drive. I have been trying to set it up to use a 100MB > slice for a swap file on the 2nd hard drive. On the 1st hard drive I'm > trying for the /, /var, and /usr slices on a 250MB section I cleared out > toward the front of the drive. Unfortunately, trying to split an installation across disks with sysinstall isn't currently possible, AFAIK. Install to the second disk, but put a small swapfile there for starters. Once the system is up, then you can manually create a second swap partition on the first disk. If anything, putting a small swap on the same disk as FreeBSD gives you a little backup in case your first disk self-destructs. Remember that the disk space must be completely unallocated. FreeBSD makes it's own partition and cannot be placed on top of DOS partitions. > It bombs if I set it to be bootable (the s option when setting up the > slices) or not. I have boot manager for OS/2 (ver. 3) in the 1st 1MB of > the hard drive that starts up my different operating systems. When the > FreeBSD bombs it messes up the boot manager just like win95 does. > Deleting the boot manager partition and putting it back clears up the > problem just as it does for win95. Since I have the OS/2 boot manager I > tell FreeBSD to not install its own manager or master boot record. You'll have to explain what you mean by "bombs", I'm guessing you're getting the ubiquitous "Missing Operating System" error. In this case, boot with a boot floppy and reset the active / startable partition to the Boot Manager slice. While you're there, you can add FreeBSD to the Boot Manager. Don't elect to install the boot manager. This is a known problem. I had a dos/os2/freebsd machine for quite a while and the boot manager has served me well. Hope this helps. Let me know if I've missed anything. 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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