On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:06 -0600, Jeff Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Very odd. If you run fdisk on Windows2000 do you not see a non-dos partition anywhere where perhaps FreeBSD was installed ? Did you remember to set your partition as bootable by FreeBSD when you selected to use all disk space ? You could always try using fdisk to delete any/all partitions first then install FreeBSD. Good luck. Nelis _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
