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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD install 'hangs' my system Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 15:36:00 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 30 Message-ID: <325AD750.AA7@best.com> References: <3258615F.74FA@best.com> Reply-To: bsampley@best.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bsampley.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) > The 1.6 gig is partitioned as follows: > > 1 primary DOS partition ~475meg > 1 extented DOS partition containing 2 subpartitions (my D & E drives) > ~525meg > 1 Linux swap partition 16meg > 1 Linux native partition using the rest of the drive. > > I was going use the space allocated to Linux to install FBSD. > > Any suggetsions on what to try next to get FBSD running? > > Please email and post your responses. Thanks in advance. > > Burton Sampley. I just spoke to Tech-Support at Walnut Creek CDROM. The reason why FBSD hangs my system is way my hard drive is currently partitioned. Tech-Support stated the FBSD kernel MUST be installed within the first 500meg of large capacity IDE drives. This restriction does not apply to SCSI drives. For FBSD to work on my system I must repartition the hard drive and basically start over. Thanks to all who have tried to help me. Does anybody in the SF Bay Area have an extra ZIP or JAZ drive I can borrow???? Burton Sampley