I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machine to
FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose use all the
disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what to place where. I
creates the necessary partitions/filesystems (/, var,swap and /usr) on what I
assume to be the 4 windows partitions already existing. It then proceeds to
install the system and I answer all the questions and the disk flashes and the
cdrom blinks for about an hour. It finally finishes and returns to the
sysinstall screen. I exit and it says it will now reboot. It does. INTO THE
WINDOWS 2000 SYSTEM!. I took a look at the disks and there is not a trace of
the FreeBSD filestructure or files. ANYWHERE!!. I am very puzzled. It looked
like all was going just fine. but for some reason, the filesystem was written
to some other planet or the installation aborted and restored all the previous
filesystem (there was no message to indicate that happened). I am, what I
consider, a very experienced computer systems analyst. Up until this time, I
have never seen this happen with any install before. I am sure that I have
done/overlooked some critical step that somehow bypassed the system install and
never made the machine into the FreeBSD box I wanted.
Any ideas? Any further information I can provide to investigate this? Thank you
for your help and attention.
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