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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!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 and WIN95 install problems Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:13:47 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 70 Message-ID: <329206EB.360C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32914239.40DE@sk.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) To: Groo the Wanderer <kuzko@sk.sympatico.ca> Groo the Wanderer wrote: > > I am trying with limited success to install Win95 and FreeBSD on my > computer. I have a 1.6G and an 800 MB hardrive. Drive Geometry > 3148/16/63 & > 1647/16/63 > > I try to create a 100MB slice for WIN95, then a 96MB slice for FreeBSD > then 1100MB for WIN95 then the rest for FreeBSD with all of the second > disk for FreeBSD. Install goes fine but then on boot when I select F2 > (the first FreeBSD slice) it does nothing (it may spin up the hard drive > but that's it). WIN95 (F1) boots fine. > > Partitions are: > wd0s1 DOS 100MB > wd0s2a / 32MB > wd0s2b <swap> 63MB > wd0s3 DOS 1100MB > wd0s4e /proj 253MB (approx) > wd1s1e /usr 810MB > > I have tried various other combinations and this worked (I thought) but > on reinstalling due to some other problems it won't work. Can anyone see > something obviously wrong? > > After partitioning the disk with FreeBSD I then install WIN95 which > trashes booteasy so I have to reinstall FreeBSD. Any advice on this and > can I just reinstall booteasy without installing FreeBSD? > > I have a NEC IDE CDROM (made for DELL). Once I get FreeBSD up, I can > configure the kernel and it works fine but I've tried Master and slave > combos with no luck to install from the NEC. I also have a Pinnacle > Micro RCS and is there any way to get FreeBSD to just use it as a scsi > read only cdrom? I understand that it won't work as a read/write drive > for now. > > On booting from the install disk, my keyboard locks up and I have to > unplug and replug it. Any hints on this? > > I have a #9FX Motion 771 video card (IRQ 11 is used for this) > Adapatec AHA 1520A adapter set to IRD 10 > > If anyone can shed any light on these problems I would truly appreciate > it as I have run out of things to try. I can provide more information if > anyone has an idea but needs detail. > > Please e-mail any ideas to > kuzko@sk.sympatico.ca > as I don't get on the net too often and might miss a news posting > (particulary if I trash my machine for an extended period again trying to > install this combo). > > cheers > > don kuzenko I don't know if this will fly or not, but I had a similar problem. Try enabling LBA mode on your HD controller. I could never get Boot Manager(2.1R in my case) to be happy without it. I don't expect to upgrade to either 2.1.5 or 2.1.6, with 2.2 just around the corner. When I do upgrade, it will be to the debugged version of 2.2. However, I would expect Boot Manager to change very little in either 2.1.5 or 2.1.6. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |