Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:31:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Reed Reavis <reavis+@pitt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Probelems Installing FreeBSD via FTP Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128223028.24983i-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32EE1A8B.3809@pitt.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Reed Reavis wrote: > I have tried installing freeBSD vis ftp on a Gateway 2000 P5 166. > > The installation completes normally. > > However, when I reboot the machine without the floppy image disk. > > The machine comes up with > > F1....BSD The geometry is wrong. Are there two bootable partitions on this disk? If not, boot a DOS floppy and run 'fdisk /mbr' and don't even bother with Booteasy. If there is, you'll need to start over, this time making a small DOS partition and erasing it in FreeBSD's install. 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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