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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief. In-Reply-To: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu's message of Sat, 25 Sep 1993 17: 00:46 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep26045608@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <280eic$eu4@acsc.com> <CDx5xB.LMq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 04:56:08 GMT Lines: 28 In article <CDx5xB.LMq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes: Note: When I installed FreeBSD I ran into the following problem. FreeBSD will not install itself over exsisting partitions by default. When forced to do so, it started the FreeBSD partition at cluster 1. The machine, once all was installed from the install floppies, would go into a cyclic reboot. The solution: When FreeBSD install asks you for the number of clusters to use, give it ALL and it will start at 0 (this is what I did). I do not know what to do if you want to keep DOS around ... Of course keeping DOS around means that you will NEVER get FreeBSD to work as the free *nix gods will never shine their good fortune on you with DOS on your hard disk. ;) Not true, not true! We love DOS, really! :) Actually, the new boot disks (available now on freebsd.cdrom.com) will respect DOS and other partitions, so no need to worry about FreeBSD RUDELY shoving your DOS out of the way anymore. I have DOS, Linux and FreeBSD on my disk and they all co-exist quite happily (see, not all *BSD folks are Linux bigots! :-) Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.