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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub6!daynews!avenger!news From: Don.Sleffel@WichitaKS.attgis.com (Don Sleffel) Subject: First Attempt to Install FreeBSD - Discouraging X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.127.29.150 Message-ID: <Dr1FK7.FLH@avenger.daytonoh.attgis.com> Sender: news@avenger.daytonoh.attgis.com (News administrative Login) Reply-To: Don.Sleffel@WichitaKS.attgis.com Organization: AT&T Global Information Solutions X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:41:11 GMT Lines: 32 I've been trying to install FreeBSD on a Zeos Pantera with a P5, EIDE disks and ATAPI CDROM. I already have DOS and Windows NT on it, and had previously installed Linux, although it has currently been removed. I added a second hard disk, thinking that I would install FreeBSD on it. On the first attempt everything seemed to go like clockwork just like the instructions said. I was a little nervous about the boot selection since I didn't know how it would play with the NT boot, so I wanted to just build a floppy to boot off of as I had done with Linux. It wasn't clear to me how to do that, but I selected that last choice for booting (none, I think or something like that). Fortunately I had no other problems and FreeBSD seemed to recognize all of my hardware. When everything had completed installing, I was surprised to see nothing more about booting other than to remove the floppy and re-boot. When I did so, I discovered the boot track had been blown away. The BIOS reported no operating system! No DOS. No NT. No FreeBSD. After recovering DOS and NT, I decided that maybe FreeBSD had to be installed on the C: drive, even though I could find nothing in the instructions either way. I re-partitioned my C: drive to make room for it and started the installation again. Now, the install can't find my CDROM. Apparently partitioning my drives differently causes FreeBSD not to be able to find the CDROM. So now I'm ready to give up and go back to Linux. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is FreeBSD supposed to be this hard to install? At least this ought to keep the amateurs from playing with it.