Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:13:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: mad@adc.com (Michael A. Dorin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! I can't get freebsd to install from a DOS partition Message-ID: <199603220413.XAA02546@jbrann> In-Reply-To: <315164C7.68A0@adc.com> from "Michael A. Dorin" at Mar 21, 96 08:16:39 am
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Michael A. Dorin wrote... > > Help! > > I'm have severial problems getting freebsd to install from > a DOS partition. > OK, first off, I've done this lots of times without trouble (as have thousands of others, hence the lack of replies). I'm afraid everything I can offer here is suspicion and innuendo... > First time through it says it can't find the partition. Smells like geometry trouble. > > Second time, going through the same steps, it finds it and copies > lots of stuff over, but says it can't copy some root files. > > Third time through it gets totally lost. Stops smelling like geometry, starts smelling like dodgy hardware. Inconsistent behaviour of this kind is unexpected from any software/ driver problem. > > I want to start over from the beginning. > > I have a Pentium P75, CD-ROM on a parallel port. > However a new CD ROM will be arriving today. > A 6xToshiba SCSI with an adaptec controller. > > The chipset is a pentium triton chipset. The 'hackers' list has been full of abuse about this chipset, but I haven't heard a suggestion that it is sufficiently broken to cause your problems. > The HD is a conner 1.2 gig drive. > (IDE from the mother board, there are no other IDE boards on > the board) Are you sure it's IDE and not some sort of EIDE? What's the disk geometry? is there some sort of BIOS extender / disk manager involved? > > 1) Is there known problems using the builtin IDE controller on the > motherboard? Shouldn't have thought so, if it's pure IDE... > 2) What are the exact steps I should take? What has to be setup in the > options section? > > My understanding is that this should work from a Triton chipset > motherboard. > It should work with IDE Drives. > The CDRom I am getting is SCCI. > > I just want some more detailed information on what to try. Please. > > Thank you very much for your help. > > -Michael Dorin > 612-946-3184 > Not much help, I'm afraid, but the answers to my questions might spark something. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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