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#! rnews 1515 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nebo.vii.com!vyzynz!nielsen!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie wanting to get into FreeBSD having trouble installing... Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:26:15 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31F56DA7.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bb7843$c68d1fa0$147fe4ce@matthew> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Matthew Richardson <yakko@voicenet.com> Matthew Richardson wrote: > > Here's a message I get when attempting to install: > > Warning: Root selected read only. It will be assumed you have appropriate > device entries in /dev. You must have failed to follow the installation instructions in some fairly major way - this can't happen unless you toggle something you're not supposed to. Please choose Novice installation mode and when it suggests a default, take it. > When trying to boot, I get a message saying "Missing Operating System." Documented in the FAQ - you've used the wrong geometry somehow (also documented in the "disk selection" dialog if you hit F1). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project