Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 15:35:30 From: andy@anigma.win.net (Mr. Andrew Micheals) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installation problem Message-ID: <20@anigma.win.net>
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To FreeBSD-hackers 6/7/95
Recently purchased the FreeBSD ver 2.0 and have
experienced an installation problem in that upon doing the
installation, rebooting then pointing on the boot manager, I get an
error message, saying (error loading operating system). This is my
first experience with unix and dont have that much experience with
computers in general, though I did build this scsi sys which the
BSD is installed, a brief discription of this sys is, 486
2-66,VL Bus, Adaptec 2842 controller, Diamond Viper VLB video
card, SoundBlaster 16 ASP sound card with Rouland Canves SCB-7
daughter board, Maxtor 540sl C:\drive all dos, Micropolis 1926
D:\drive 737 mb dos and 1321 mb for BSD, Teac 1.2 a:\drive, Teac
1.44 B:\drive, Plextor DM 3028 CD Rom E:\drive, DataFax 14.4
internal modem. The machine has MS DOS 6.2 running off the c:\drive
and a secondary partition on number 1 slot of d:\drive with BSD on
slot 2 of d:\drive. Had previously sent a message to
Freebsd-questions and recieved a reply from Brian Litzinger,
@MediaCity and apreciate his quick response but was not able to
quite understand what he ment or how to go about doing what he was
saying, have since managed to get a little ways further toward
getting up and running with that problem overcome and now this
problem to get past. Will give a quick rundown of what information
could be important from the fdisk editor:
1. Boot?=No Type=Primary 'big'DOS (>32MB)
Phys=(c0/h2/s18..c575/h106/s22) Sector=(63..1510109)
Size=737 MB, 575 Cylinders + 104 tracts =5 Sectors
2. Boot?=Yes Type=FreeBSD/Net/386BSD
Phys=9c575/h106/s23..c1023/h113/s19)Sectors
(1510110..4216171)
Size=1321 MB, 1032 Cylinders + 6 tracts +20 Sectors
Also have noticed that the boot manager has options, the one
I am using is F-5 Disk2, should it be something F-2 FreeBSD ?
Would apreciate some help, unable to locate anyone in my
area with any unix experience. A phone number and the possibility
of having someone talk me through installation would probably solve
any additional problems, evev though it might be long distance, a
small price to pay to avert all the anoyence. Will look for a
reply.
Thank You
Andy@anigma.win.net
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