Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to provide more information on your system such as what disk controller(s) it has and what hard disks. -Derek At 07:24 AM 4/16/2006, Mohamad Babaei wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the

Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread Mohamad Babaei
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 & 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the next installation process is "Fdisk" : "no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed" please help. Regards, Mo. ___

Installing FreeBSD-4.11 on Dell PowerEdge 2800

2006-04-11 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hi, I just need some pointers towards installing FreeBSD 4.11 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 with 4GB RAM, Dual CPU, with 1TB disk storage on RAID 5. I have a production system that I am not willing to upgrade beyond 4.11 at all as it is rock solid as it is.;) Currently it's running on HP ML 35

Re: Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

2006-03-20 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 3/20/06, Joao Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you have "USB Legacy support" enabled in the BIOS you should > still have a working keyboard up till the loader stage. > With that you should be able to select option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB > keyboard' of the boot menu as mentioned. > You

Re: Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

2006-03-20 Thread Joao Barros
On 3/20/06, Kenyon Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/19/06, Andreas Rudisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:04:01 +0100, Kenyon Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel > > > SE440BX-2 motherboard. The keyb

Re: Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

2006-03-19 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 3/19/06, Andreas Rudisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:04:01 +0100, Kenyon Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel > > SE440BX-2 motherboard. The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup and > > in Linux booted from

Re: Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

2006-03-19 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:04:01 +0100, Kenyon Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard. The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup and in Linux booted from a CD. Booting with a 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso CD gives me no

Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

2006-03-19 Thread Kenyon Ralph
Howdy, longtime Linux user here, finally starting to play with FreeBSD. Having a problem getting it installed... I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard. The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup and in Linux booted from a CD. Booting with a 6.0-RELEA

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM ThinkCentre 8136-KSQ

2006-03-14 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
Hi: The problem is that the network card is not detected, is a network card Boradcom in the mother board. I see a chip with this numbers: Broadcom BCM5751FKFB HS0521 P21 744910 N Whit "dmesg | grep -i ethe" I got: pci2: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) With "pciconf -lv" I got: [EMAIL PRO

RE: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

2006-03-12 Thread ehrhard . herbst
gt; -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 5:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help > > > Hello, > > may I ask you

RE: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

2006-03-11 Thread fbsd_user
PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help Hello, may I ask you for help with the following Problem: When I try to install FreeBsd6.0, there is the following error during the boot process

Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

2006-03-11 Thread ehrhard . herbst
Hello, may I ask you for help with the following Problem: When I try to install FreeBsd6.0, there is the following error during the boot process (because the system is not able to boot from CD, I have to boot from floppy) occurs: ahc0: probe1:ahc0:0:1:0: SCB 6: immediate reset Flags 0x620 ahc0: pr

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Damian Gerow wrote: Thus spake fbsd_user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 08:59]: : I see you both have Bladecenters. : Have you had any luck with getting FreeBSD to install on it yet. : : What is the status of your efforts. : : Been offered contract to do this for client, : but need to know if

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-03-10 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake fbsd_user ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/03/06 08:59]: : I see you both have Bladecenters. : Have you had any luck with getting FreeBSD to install on it yet. : : What is the status of your efforts. : : Been offered contract to do this for client, : but need to know if it can be done before

RE: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-03-10 Thread fbsd_user
I see you both have Bladecenters. Have you had any luck with getting FreeBSD to install on it yet. What is the status of your efforts. Been offered contract to do this for client, but need to know if it can be done before I accept the job. ___ freeb

Solved: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: So whatever utilities Dell(?) provide should work. You should be able to find those on the manufacturer's website and maybe even in the ports. cd /usr/ports && make search name=aac finds this: Port: aaccli-1.0 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/aaccli Info: Adaptec SCSI RAI

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should "just work", but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supporte

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should "just work", but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supported by the aac driver so c

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 "Just Works (TM)"? or how do I make sure that my raid is actual

Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 "Just Works (TM)"? or how do I make sure that my raid is actually used and not just o

Installing freebsd 5.4 release

2006-03-01 Thread Surekha
Hi, I have been working on linux but new to Free BSD. I am facing some problem in installing FreeBSD 5.4 release. I downloaded the following source code kame-20060220-freebsd54-snap.tar and tried to install on a machine which already has FreeBSD 5.2.1 release. But I am

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Riv Octovahriz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [28/02/06 03:58]: : Is there anyway to install FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 ? Not that I've been able to figure out. I asked the same question not too long ago:

Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20

2006-02-28 Thread Riv Octovahriz
Is there anyway to install FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 ? hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" allow me to bypass the atkbd check, but my keyboard just drop dead on sysinstall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-15 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:04:01PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > 1) once you installed the graphics/dri , how do you enable them in > xorg.conf? Unfortunately I cannot tell you about configuration you need for 855G, but at least you need load kernel module for 855G, and place Load "dri" Load "gl

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Igor Robul wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote: > >> There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are >> nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both >> cases search the mailing list archives the info is there. >>

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-13 Thread Igor Robul
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:36:08AM +, Robert Slade wrote: > There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are > nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both > cases search the mailing list archives the info is there. I dont see any problems with ATI Ra

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Slade
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 22:24, Alexandre Adao wrote: > I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the > standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on > GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? > > Thanks for any help. > --Alex > Alex, Welcome Every thing you should need to know is

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
Alexandre Adao wrote: I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex Read the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html -- K

Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Alexandre Adao
I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protecti

Installing FreeBSD on a Compaq Presario R4125

2005-11-21 Thread NuclearDog
I have been trying to get FreeBSD installed on my Compaq Presario R4125 for a while now. I have tried: - FreeBSD 5.2.1 (i386) - FreeBSD 5.3 (i386) - FreeBSD 5.4 (i386) - FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) - FreeBSD 6.0 (amd64) I have tried safe mode, and booting with ACPI disabled. I have tried setting hint

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Corey Farwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to > install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried > going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now? You can download two flo

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread virgil huston
> At 01:57 7/26/2005, Corey Farwell, wrote: > >I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to > >install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried > >going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now? > >Corey Farwell Try h

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread W. D.
At 01:57 7/26/2005, Corey Farwell, wrote: >I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to >install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried >going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now? >Corey Farwell Hey Corey, I

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:57 PM 7/25/2005, Corey Farwell wrote: I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. More info about your hardware would help. Are you unable to boot from the CD? or are you adding FreeBSD as a second oper

Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-25 Thread Corey Farwell
I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now? Corey Farwell -- Get Firefox - http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliat

Installing FreeBSD on NEC Express5800/120Ef

2005-06-30 Thread bsd
Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD 5.x on a NEC Express5800/120Ef Thanks for your answer and experience. «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ Gregober ---> PGP ID --> 0x1BA3C2FD

Re: Installing FreeBSD -- urgent hard drive issue

2005-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
;. Thus, you should be _VERY_ careful while installing FreeBSD not to change anything on the "ad0" disk. You can partition, slice and assign space of "ad1" to your FreeBSD installation, in (more or less) any way you want. > I would like to install FreeBSD on this second disk

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-30 Thread Amandeep
Steven Hartland wrote: Sounds like u have followed the install guide with the drivers. I couldn't get that to work ( without ACPI ) I had to install with ACPI but this was 5.4-RELEASE but using the 5.3 driver from highpoints site as there wasn't a 5.4 driver available. 1. Boot from cd 2. got to

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Bjoern Koenig
Hello, I think it's a question for the highpoint support. It's their product and their driver. Here are some instant hints: - read the PDF carefully and follow the instructions strictly - use the BIOS in the tarball; nothing else!! Regards Björn

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Steven Hartland
Sounds like u have followed the install guide with the drivers. I couldn't get that to work ( without ACPI ) I had to install with ACPI but this was 5.4-RELEASE but using the 5.3 driver from highpoints site as there wasn't a 5.4 driver available. 1. Boot from cd 2. got to boot prompt, load the dri

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Amandeep
Hi guys, Anyone??? Amandeep wrote: Hi all, I am instalaling FreeBSD 5.3 AMD 64 bit with 6- 200GB drives. Using Higpoint 1820A controller and doing RAID 10. I am using drivers for the card from Highpoint Web. The problem is when I make the partitions and the machine tries to format the

Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Amandeep
Hi all, I am instalaling FreeBSD 5.3 AMD 64 bit with 6- 200GB drives. Using Higpoint 1820A controller and doing RAID 10. I am using drivers for the card from Highpoint Web. The problem is when I make the partitions and the machine tries to format the partitions it says: unable to find dev

Re: installing freebsd: only detects 4mb ram

2005-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 21), Etienne Ledoux said: > ok, a long time ago I installed freebsd on an old beast. it has been > faithfull to me for a few years now. I want to reinstall it with > 5.4STABLE (not upgrade, I want to start fresh). But it only detects > 4mb of ram. it actually has 98mb of ra

installing freebsd: only detects 4mb ram

2005-05-20 Thread Etienne Ledoux
ok, a long time ago I installed freebsd on an old beast. it has been faithfull to me for a few years now. I want to reinstall it with 5.4STABLE (not upgrade, I want to start fresh). But it only detects 4mb of ram. it actually has 98mb of ram and I remember I had to recompile the kernel to get f

Problems installing FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-16 Thread Hernán Nicolás Taboada
Hi everybody! I'm having problems trying the Default installation (booting from the CD-ROM) of FreeBSD 5.4 Release in a HP ProLiant ML150 G2 server , with two Maxtor MaXLine

Problem installing FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-16 Thread Pieter Baele
I want to install freebsd maybe as a replacement for (gentoo) linux (on the long term), but I am experiencing some problems. The booting process (kernel) of the installation media just halts. I've tried with acpi off but this didn't help. I thin it has something to do with ata/ide Verbose output

Re: Installing FreeBSD -> Fatal trap 12

2005-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
nicholaserho wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD from floppies on a 486-DX-33, and with the three floppies I made I cant get to the boot menu screen (with the devil) but if I attempt to boot I get a "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernal mode" error. The same error happens if I try saf

Installing FreeBSD -> Fatal trap 12

2005-04-23 Thread nicholaserho
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD from floppies on a 486-DX-33, and with the three floppies I made I cant get to the boot menu screen (with the devil) but if I attempt to boot I get a "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernal mode" error. The same error happens if I try safe mode except my sys

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Windows/Linux Shared Enviroment

2005-03-21 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Intel69 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering, I am about to setup a computer I have to run Windows > XP, Ubuntu and FreeBSD. FreeBSD and all Linuxes I've ever encountered come with installers which acknowledge the fact that other operating systems exist and makes some effort at making t

Installing FreeBSD on Windows/Linux Shared Enviroment

2005-03-21 Thread Intel69
Hi, I was wondering, I am about to setup a computer I have to run Windows XP, Ubuntu and FreeBSD. I wanted to know if it was possible to run FreeBSD and Linux on the same computer. If I can, do I have to partition my disk in 3 parts? I have a 80Gb IDE that came with the dell... would be like

Re: Problems with installing freeBSD 4.8

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Hauber
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:36 am, Richard Jansson wrote: > Hello > computer tell me thats it reseting the console. Num lock and > Caps lock stops working. And on the display i can read these > words "reseting ata0...". can you be more specific on this error? Mike

Re: Problems with installing freeBSD 4.8

2005-02-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:36:29PM +0100, Richard Jansson wrote: > Hello > I am facing some problems with installing FreeBSD 4.8. Try a later release. Kris pgpLda4fg7nbm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Problems with installing freeBSD 4.8

2005-02-23 Thread Richard Jansson
Hello I am facing some problems with installing FreeBSD 4.8. This is my computer configuration: Build from a barbone system by ASUS; Terminator P4 533. With 256 megs of Ram. Integrated SiS video card. And a 40 Gigs hard drive named Maxtor 6E040L0. When I boot from the cd with custom configuration

Re: Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2005-02-08 Thread John Bolding
This known problem cropped up on a brand new 1U system I installed and nothing in the referred to errata appeared to help. > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/errata.html > However, I finally got the group at freebsdmall to respond, and their ideas did resolve this issue. Why does the info

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...)

2004-12-13 Thread Charlie Sorsby
First, thank you for taking time out of your weekend to respond to my query. It's much appreciates. I apologize for taking so long to reply. As you can imagine, my system has been up and down and e-mail with it. > On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote: > > Is the

Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...)

2004-12-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote: > Is the installer for freeBSD 4.5 broken? > > I've long procrastinated updating to a more recent version of > freeBSD, mainly because I hate trying to get things back the way I > had them afterwards. > > Consequently, I've been

Re: Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2004-12-06 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, 22:39 +0800, Irvin Piraman wrote: This has been an open issue since 5.2.1 and still present on 5.3-RELEASE. It usually works for when I select safe mode during installation. If not try using with ACPI disabled. Once you are finished with the install you'll have to do some worka

Re: Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2004-11-30 Thread Irvin Piraman
This has been an open issue since 5.2.1 and still present on 5.3-RELEASE. It usually works for when I select safe mode during installation. If not try using with ACPI disabled. Once you are finished with the install you'll have to do some workaround. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/errata.h

Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY

2004-11-30 Thread Julián Herrera
Hello 4 all, I was starting to install FreeBSD 5.3 into 42 computers where I work as workstations when just at first installation i've got this uncommon problem. When kernel is finishing to load some messages like this appears: ata0-master : FAILURE ATA-IDENTIFY timed out After that, the instal

Re: installing freebsd i386 om my pentium 4!

2004-11-06 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Schuffelers wrote: | Question!!! | | When i want to install freebsd from cd my system reboots or shuts down, what | is the problem? | I have a pentium 4. | | Greatz Pascal The problem is that you are not supplying enough information for us to help you.

installing freebsd i386 om my pentium 4!

2004-11-06 Thread Schuffelers
Question!!! When i want to install freebsd from cd my system reboots or shuts down, what is the problem? I have a pentium 4. Greatz Pascal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Hard Disk problems when installing FreeBSD 5.3BETA7

2004-11-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington
{REVISED POST} Hello experts, I have experienced so much problems installing FreeBSD 5.3BETA7 I guess it's time for me to ask the experts. I have two disks: 1. Maxtor (DiamondMax Plus 9) 120GB ATA/133 Mfg Date: 30 Jan 2004 Code: YAR41BW0 E-H011-02-3880 (3.5 SERIES) 2. We

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-29 Thread Aaron Siegel
Hello A simple solution, just to get things working, is to us one hard drive at a time. Set up both drives a the master IDE device and swap between operating systems by swapping the cable between the two drives. If you want to run FreeBSD plug in the 40GB drive and unplug the 80GB. The reverse

Re: considering installing FreeBSD on a Dell 2800 and need a wee

2004-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Greetings, I currently am using Solaris (SPARC) boxes in my small business, > but I am considering migrating to FreeBSD when I build my next mail server. > I am considering purchasing a Dell 2800 multi-processor with RAID 1 and > RAID 5 on the disks. Whom might I contact to find out if this

considering installing FreeBSD on a Dell 2800 and need a wee bit of advice

2004-09-29 Thread Pancho Cole
Greetings, I currently am using Solaris (SPARC) boxes in my small business, but I am considering migrating to FreeBSD when I build my next mail server. I am considering purchasing a Dell 2800 multi-processor with RAID 1 and RAID 5 on the disks. Whom might I contact to find out if this would work

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
y stowed away. So if you make the 80G drive master and install WXP there using the entire drive then NTLDR should install on that disk and be safe from any installation of FreeBSD on the slave. And this should remain OK even after installing the FreeBSD MBR on the master drive. If you install (or

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
I received a direct response from Michael which I don't see copied to the mailing list. On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:00 pm, Walker, Michael wrote: > >It is my understanding that on installation windows by default > >places NTLDR is the first file system which is > >understood by the MS software. So if

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-26 Thread Saccheen Martin
Hi, I still cannot boot Windows so I set the BIOS to boot from the slave hard disk that has Windows first and it gave me the following error: NTLDR is missing press ATL-CTRL-DEL to restart --- Martin Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 September 2004 22:48, Saccheen Martin > wrote

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-26 Thread Martin Paredes
On Friday 24 September 2004 22:48, Saccheen Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I have a Pentium 3, 5oo IBM > computer that I put two hard drives in. I added a 4.3G > hard drive (master) and an 80G hard drive (slave). > Initially, windows XP was installed on both hard > drives. you

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:53 pm, Saccheen Martin wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > Please try to avoid top posting. Instead embed your comments/questions at the apropriate part of the thread. > The other computer is not on a network so I will try > to type the outputs. > > # /sbin/fdisk ad0 > *Working on

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Saccheen Martin
Hi Malcolm, The other computer is not on a network so I will try to type the outputs. # /sbin/fdisk ad0 *Working on device /dev/ad0/ ** Parameters extracted are cyl=787 heads 128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cyl=787 heads=128 sectors

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:23 am, Saccheen Martin wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > Thank you so much for replying. I did what you said > and I got the following: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Drive 1 > > When I press F5, I get: > >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > Default: 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: _ > > What do I type at the b

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Saccheen Martin
Help! I still don't know what to type at the boot: prompt. > Saccheen Martin wrote: > > Hi Malcolm, > > Thank you so much for replying. I did what you > said > > and I got the following: > > > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Drive 1 > > > > When I press F5, I get: > > > > > >>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > > >

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Mike Hauber
On Saturday 25 September 2004 02:59 pm, Mike Hauber proclaimed: > On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:33 pm, Chris proclaimed: > > Saccheen Martin wrote: > snip > > > > In addition to the above, is there a way to "edit" the > > boot menu? > > Have a look at the FAQs. I not sure it would be >

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Mike Hauber
On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:33 pm, Chris proclaimed: > Saccheen Martin wrote: > snip > > In addition to the above, is there a way to "edit" the > boot menu? Have a look at the FAQs. I not sure it would be practical to do so. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disk

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Chris
Saccheen Martin wrote: Hi Malcolm, Thank you so much for replying. I did what you said and I got the following: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 When I press F5, I get: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader boot: _ What do I type at the boot: prompt to get windows? Thanks Saccheen --- Malcolm

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Saccheen Martin
Hi Malcolm, Thank you so much for replying. I did what you said and I got the following: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 When I press F5, I get: >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader boot: _ What do I type at the boot: prompt to get windows? Thanks Saccheen --- Malcolm Kay <[EMAIL PRO

Re: cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-25 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 03:18 pm, Saccheen Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I have a Pentium 3, 5oo IBM > computer that I put two hard drives in. I added a 4.3G > hard drive (master) and an 80G hard drive (slave). > Initially, windows XP was installed on both hard > drives. > > Last ni

cannot see Windows after installing FreeBSD

2004-09-24 Thread Saccheen Martin
Hi, I am a newbie to FreeBSD. I have a Pentium 3, 5oo IBM computer that I put two hard drives in. I added a 4.3G hard drive (master) and an 80G hard drive (slave). Initially, windows XP was installed on both hard drives. Last night, I decided to install FreeBSD 4.10 on the 4.3G hard drive and ke

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 on large disk shared with Windows

2004-08-22 Thread R. W.
On Sunday 22 August 2004 13:49, John Michaels wrote: > I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with > FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then > 'follow along' the book. > > I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which > alread

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.7 on large disk shared with Windows

2004-08-22 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:49:58PM +0100, John Michaels wrote: > I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with > FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then > 'follow along' the book. > > I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) whi

Installing FreeBSD 4.7 on large disk shared with Windows

2004-08-22 Thread John Michaels
I have obtained Sams Teach yourself FreeBSD which includes a Cd with FreeBSD 4.7 which the authors suggest is installed as you can then 'follow along' the book. I have a machine with 2 Disks (60 Gb and 30Gb respectively) which already has Windows Me (and Slackware). Because of Windows not alwa

Re: problem installing freebsd

2004-07-27 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 01:09 am, Sikander Abbasi wrote: > Dear sir, > > thanking you for your reply > > I am using freebsd 5.2 cdrom installing,it give > errorwhen it start installing file system, error, max > one fat partition allow. > > with regards > Sikander Abbasi Are you having FreeBSD inst

Re: problem installing freebsd

2004-07-26 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 26 July 2004 10:29 am, Sikander Abbasi wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am new to freebsd i am having problem installing > freebsd, when i tried to install it say max one fat > partition, > > i have 2 fat primary partition and keep 5 gd 1 > partition for installing fre

problem installing freebsd

2004-07-26 Thread Sikander Abbasi
Dear Sir, I am new to freebsd i am having problem installing freebsd, when i tried to install it say max one fat partition, i have 2 fat primary partition and keep 5 gd 1 partition for installing freebsd. plz help me in this with regards sikander Abbasi

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
2004 11:35 AM > To: Bawan > Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD > > > > > I am still in process of installing it. The last few line which I see are: > > > >

RE: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
ion and absolutely perfect documentation-following adherence. Regards, Steve > Bawan > > -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:35 AM > To: Bawan > Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

RE: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-19 Thread Bawan
guys for great support. I may need your help again when installing mail toaster on it. Bawan -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:35 AM To: Bawan Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installi

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> Thanks. > Bawan > > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:24 AM > To: Bawan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD > > > > > I tried w

RE: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-19 Thread Bawan
bject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD > > I tried with options Start kernel configuration and Skip Kernel > Configuration and have same result. Keyboard is not getting "off" even I > do > cold boot, but system start and same thing repeats. > It sounds like you sti

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Is that a new one on the market? I haven't seen that one before. > > > No its not new, just not popular. > > > Partition Magic has been the only one readily available off the shelf > > in this area. Others have to be mail-ordered. It handled NTFS fine > >

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-18 Thread Jud
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:56:24 -0400 (EDT), Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've used Acronis Partition Expert on a ntfs(w2k3) partition and it worked just fine. Is that a new one on the market? I haven't seen that one before. Partition Magic has been the only one readily available of

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Aaron Myles Landwehr
Jerry McAllister wrote: Is that a new one on the market? I haven't seen that one before. No its not new, just not popular. Partition Magic has been the only one readily available off the shelf in this area. Others have to be mail-ordered. It handled NTFS fine for me, though that was for Win2k.

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I've used Acronis Partition Expert on a ntfs(w2k3) partition and it > worked just fine. Is that a new one on the market? I haven't seen that one before. Partition Magic has been the only one readily available off the shelf in this area. Others have to be mail-ordered. It handled NTFS f

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
iately reboot. It should back up a screen and you choose the next thing. jerry > > -Original Message- > From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:38 PM > To: Bawan > Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sub

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Aaron Myles Landwehr
I've used Acronis Partition Expert on a ntfs(w2k3) partition and it worked just fine. I'm not quite sure who this is directed as i missed the most of the post.(Just signed up to questions) -Aaron Myles Landwehr ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ht

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
'Jerry McAllister' > > Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD > > > > > > I deleted the partition and made 1.5Gb of DOS partition. I > > made two floppy > > disks as per the instruct

RE: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Clark
(920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 > -Original Message- > From: Bawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 5:17 PM > To: 'Jerry McAllister' > Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD

RE: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-16 Thread Bawan
#x27;Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD > > It's the same problem when I remove CD. Does it make sense: I am installing > on the machine which already have Windows 2003 server, and file system NTFS. > I thought FreeBSD may

Re: problem while installing FreeBSD

2004-07-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
he FreeBSD stuff. Maybe this will help. jerry > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:24 AM > To: Bawan > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD > > &

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