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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!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: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:08:50 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 42 Message-ID: <32631C62.497@best.com> References: <3258615F.74FA@best.com> <325AD750.AA7@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) Burton Sampley wrote: > > > 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 The final Chapter Well, the hard drive was not the problem. The problem was a cheap 2X IDE atapi cdrom drive. FBSD was not able to recognize it. The solution was to replace the cdrom drive with a Sony 8X EIDE cdrom. I am now able to install FBSD without my system crashing. Thanks to everyone who has givin me advice and help. Burton Sampley