Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:57:05 GMT From: john@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk (John Murphy) To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: my temporary imperfection Message-ID: <36eee99d.468307@smtp.freeserve.net>
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Hi. I do like a challenge but the territory seems so alien to a very new bie. My own fault I guess, without knowing the difference I bought 3.0 = Release, thinking it was bound to be better than 2.2.8 Stable. I wish I'd got the complete version with the book. Oh well. I've two pcs, and a different set of problems on each, but I wont ask for answers here. I'm just saying HELLO and listing a few = solutions/sugestions. My main pc has a large (10.5Gbyte) HD and a removable 850Mbyte drive as = slave on the same IDE port with fbsd on it. I chose the dual boot feature, but = when I tried to boot up later the bios reported "Not found any [active = partition] in HDD". MSDOS fdisk fixed that ok and on the next boot I was offered the choice of F1 ... ??, F2 ... ?? or F5 ... disk 2. I found that pressing F1= gave me a dos prompt and "win" got windows going. F2 limbo land and F5 was = same as =461 except that after closing down and re-booting I'd have to run MSDOS = fdisk again and reset my main drive bootable. In tools on CD1 of the 4, I found bootinst.exe (Booteasy?) Ran it and = answered yes to everything, and on pressing F5 F1 hooray up came Free BSD! However= when I tried windows the next day it went into MSDOS compatibility mode, = requiring the deletion of the NOIDE key in the registry to get it working properly = again. This hasn't happened since. Probably because I remove the fbsd drive = before running windows. I still have to do the fdsik thing after every fbsd = session. I'll probably put up with it until I become more advanced and figure out = how to upgrade the boot blocks (after doing an ELF upgrade/make world of = course). Something I found most useful is that changing the shell to tcsh gives = access to previous commands by pressing the up arrow. Now I only have to type /stand/sysinstall, or whatever, once, and it's remembered. I only = discovered this today so I don't know if it remembers after a shutdown. Probably = does. I may have to resort to questioning fbsd-questions for an answer to the = next problem, though I've seen the question go un-answered there, so there's = not much point. When trying to run xcircuit, xfig, xdtm, xfishtank or xpaint,= an error /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 :Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found. Something to do with ldconfig I'm guessing, or because I'm only semi-ELF = :-) I guess I _am_ hooked though. --=20 Thanks for reading me, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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