Your box would not be considered a legacy box. If you have HD not found on 5.4 but found on 5.3 then good chance you have bad sectors on HD. 5.4 fdisk uses different method to read HD than 5.3 and older versions. Before you could set up unused partition around bad sectors and windows and FreeBSD < 5.4 worked fine. Now in 5.4 the fdisk pgm scans through the whole HD even windows partitions and if it thinks there is any bad tracks any where on the hd it says hd not found. That's why its so important to do bkup of any data on the hd before installing 5.4. It can mess up HD so you can not any longer boot windows system from existing partition.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M B Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: a question or 2 Hello, I have similar situation. How much memory and processor speed is necessary? Will a PII 233MHz with 128MB be capable of performing this installation? Best regards and thanks in advance. Mats, Malmv, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] werote: this is know problem. 5.4 from floppy or cdrom now needs more memory and cpu speed that legacy PC can provide. remove HD from legacy PC and connect it to faster / newer pc to do install, them return to legacy PC to run. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of T.F. Cheng Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:35 PM To: FreeBSD Subject: a question or 2 Hi, have a few questions to ask. First: install 5.4 release from floppy can't seem to locate hard drive. I have a ~2GB HD that I was trying to use, 5.4 booting can't locate my HD when partitioning, but 5.3 floppy okay. 2nd: How big a HD should I use? I can't install system+X in that 2GB I just mentioned, by the time it came to X, it just told me that inode is not enough. thanks Best Regards, Tsu-Fan Cheng _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 登記免費的 @yahoo.com 中文電子郵件 @ http://chinese.mail.yahoo.com Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://chinese.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
