Re: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie the low level to a keyboard function, Like pressing F2 etc, at boot to access new BIOS functionality. Is this possible? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On 02/17/12 19:58, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks interesting possibilities. One thought I had is creating an operating system independent BIOS where the appropriate machine code is inserted into the events that lead to an override of the processes that is forcing into windows. Maybe burned to a CD or USB, from another computer and tie the low level to a keyboard function, Like pressing F2 etc, at boot to access new BIOS functionality. Is this possible? I don't believe so. Its not really that hardwired to windows, not in my experience; it is a real PITA though. If you play your cards right and you know enough about BIOS you will get it. With the new laptops they really try hard to stick windows like shit on your laptop. But they can't _make_ you use it. New HP laptops (like the ones I use), can take a few goes to get it to install. Asus are about the same. Just watch your boot ordering and you will be fine. I keep reiterating using USB to install because it really does simplify matters. In the BIOS you usually find about 3 entries to set the boot order. One is to set the boot order (removable, hdd, or network), one for which removable (cdrom, usb cdrom, usb floppy, etc), and one for hdd priority (here is where your usb disk will show up, and you _will_ have to set it as boot every time, but it will boot). Set the boot order for removable, hdd, network (or disable if you like). Set the removable to cdrom. Set the hdd (temporarily because as I said it _will_ change) to the usb disk. Voila! it will start the install. I have found the cdrom to be fickle on the new laptops for booting, I'm not sure exactly why but I suspect the confusion of removable drives in the BIOS. I'm not a samsung expert, but most laptop BIOS are very similar (at least ones in the same era). #1 Get a BIOS expert to help if you can't get this figured. They will be able to show you exactly what to do in front of you in about 5-10 mins. Easier to understand if its visually shown to you rather than described. Once you jump this hurdle you will do just fine. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM,per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. If you don't mind losing everything currently on the drive, overwriting the MBR -- and the backup GPT at the end of the drive, if the BIOS supports GPT/UEFI -- would surely keep it from booting into Windows. You'd probably have to take the drive out, and connect it to a different machine (since this one's BIOS seems hardwired to boot only from the hard drive). Another possibility would be to clear the machine's CMOS, if there's a way to do that. Desktop mainboards usually have a jumper for the purpose; dunno about Samsung laptops but removing the CMOS battery and giving it a few minutes for the stray capacitance to discharge should suffice. (Getting to the CMOS battery may involve taking the case apart.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2 types of PC boot CDs I believe, FreeBSD changed to the newer method in last year or so I think (maybe just for 8.* ?), so if yours is an older PC it might be looking for the other sort. You could try a few years old (eg 6.* or probably 7.*) FreeBSD CDROM for interest to see if that boots. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD Question not clear. You can access to read execute all files from CDROM, by using the LIVEFS (live file system) option. To access files on the MS partition[s], If fdisk shows the MS still present you can also mount the MS file systems from BSD (regardless whether BSD is booted running from CD or hard disk) For that you would need either mount -t msdosfs . if its an older FS or mount -t ntfs -r . if its a newer NTFS it only support read only mode, That mount command calls eg /sbin/mount_msdosfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Thats where they are on a hard disc. If FreeBSD hasnt installed yet, you'll find them I recall under something like /mnt2/sbin/mount_msdosfs (I think the cd is already mounted) If you want to write individual files on an MS NTFS you need ntfs-3g which is partly broken (one error noted in my http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/ a lot easier to run from a hard disk working system. and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Well if you just wanted to trash the MS not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question (fwd)
Hi, Please keep on list so others can help you too. Forwarded from: Julian Stacey j...@berklix.com http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message From silverskymus...@gmail.com Thu Feb 16 16:20:10 2012 To: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015173fe456d90a2504b9164537 Hi Julian and thanks for you reply. - - Well if you just wanted to trash the MS not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE - This is what I would like to do, but windows restored to an older version where i do not remember login pswd, as mentioned. So automatically boots to the security layer and overrides the reordering in the BIOS I have phoenix BIOS to set to CD boot first I am not advanced enough to know what you mean by the if then statements. please enlighten. I will try using an older version per your suggestion and let you know how it goes Thanks again On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2 types of PC boot CDs I believe, FreeBSD changed to the newer method in last year or so I think (maybe just for 8.* ?), so if yours is an older PC it might be looking for the other sort. You could try a few years old (eg 6.* or probably 7.*) FreeBSD CDROM for interest to see if that boots. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD Question not clear. You can access to read execute all files from CDROM, by using the LIVEFS (live file system) option. To access files on the MS partition[s], If fdisk shows the MS still present you can also mount the MS file systems from BSD (regardless whether BSD is booted running from CD or hard disk) For that you would need either mount -t msdosfs . if its an older FS or mount -t ntfs -r . if its a newer NTFS it only support read only mode, That mount command calls eg /sbin/mount_msdosfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Thats where they are on a hard disc. If FreeBSD hasnt installed yet, you'll find them I recall under something like /mnt2/sbin/mount_msdosfs (I think the cd is already mounted) If you want to write individual files on an MS NTFS you need ntfs-3g which is partly broken (one error noted in my http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/ a lot easier to run from a hard disk working system. and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Well if you just wanted to trash the MS not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ - -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. - --0015173fe456d90a2504b9164537 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Julian and thanks for you reply.brbrbr= - -brWe= ll if you just wanted to trash the MS amp; not recover data ?br that#39;s easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it,br but you could always try something likebr =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D1000br DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUEbr--= - ---= - ---brfont color=3D#99This is what I would like to do,= but windows
Re: Technical Support Question
You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. Any other ideas? Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.comwrote: There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. This message usually originates from a Windows boot CD, not a FreeBSD one. Is there more than one CDROM in the system? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
No, unfort. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.comwrote: There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. This message usually originates from a Windows boot CD, not a FreeBSD one. Is there more than one CDROM in the system? -- Adam Vande More -- Any attachments (WAV. MP3, PDF) files etc, contain copyrighted material that is protected under intellectual property law in the USA and internationally through the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Messages are for the intended recipients only and usually contain confidential information as well. If you received this message or any previous messages in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any files or emails that may be in question. Thanks for your consideration. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. I suggest temporarily disconnect data cable of old disc, (no need to unscrew it replace with another hard disc yet), Then push reset, see if the raw PC + BIOS is capable of reading booting the FreeBSD CD with No hard disc. If PC still cant boot the FreeBSD CD, see if PC can boot some/any other bootable CD eg another BSD Linux MS whatever, any CD been proved bootable on other machines. Take it small step by step, decouple the questions can that PC read any cdroms can that PC read that particular cdrom can that PC boot from cdroms can that PC boot from that particular cdroms does the BIOS correctly use the specified boot order or ignore it. Some BIOSES are weird, / cussid. I think I met one where if one didnt tell it to boot off floppy it would not boot off cd either, or similar.) I certainly met one where PC just wouldnt work right after I reviewed set every damn option on every page. Then I reset to boot defaults (slow) then to defaults optimised, then I reset every option as I wanted it, then the PC worked fine. What that told me is that BIOS in its default reset, was resetting some values that it then never l;ater displayed in its menus. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. First things first. 1) DOUBLE CHECK the CD you're trying to boot from. Make sure it boots in the other machine, *and* what O/S it boots into. 2) Go into the BIOS settings on the Samsung -- look at _all_ the settings. especially for the 'boot device' list. Make sure you are *not* trying to boot from a 'recovery partition', or 'installation disk' choice. Better yet, tell us _exactly_ how all the boot device options read, IN the order they are displayed. 3) IF you can, _remove_ the hard disk from the list of boot devices. If not, *disable* the IDE device probing/disk type for the disks, but leave the CD drive active.. 4) now try booting -without- a CD in the drive. The 'desired outcome' is a '*failure* to boot' message -- with a fair chance that it will ask you to insert a bootable disk and retry. 5) If it gives a retry option, put the CD in the drive and do what it says to retry. If no retry option, put the CD in the drive, and give it the well known three-finger salute. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On 02/17/12 05:11, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. Any other ideas? Look, these new laptop BIOS' can be most frustrating. Try a USB install using the memstick img - thats how I installed finally. I got jack of the messing about with the security measures they take on laptops these days. For reference, the boot settings in BIOS are pretty dynamic on the laptops now, so if you set the boot order it may change the next time you reboot from whatever you're doing. It _should_ let you do what you want once you exit BIOS though. And make sure of the boot order, it may be confusing. If you know someone who knows BIOS better, use them to help. Also look for a boot order key when you do boot up, this will do for a temp measure but you will have to be quick. You should probably make a decision about what you're going to do with the restore partition as well. You can make the disks on CD/DVD if you want so you can restore later, then dump it. Be aware (in this decision) that manufacturers can be real shits about *not* having Windows installed when you warranty repair. You may not want to have the fights like I have. Their policies _are_ illegal, but sometimes you may not want to have that particular argument... :) Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julian H. Staceyj...@berklix.com wrote: You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On 02/17/12 05:11, Chip Oakley wrote: Thanks for your reply. The boot CD will boot on the other machine, but not on the computer for my intended install of BSD. I set the boot order to boot first from CD ROM in phoenix BIOS. It is a Samsung Laptop it is windows 7 home edition I called Samsung and they have no information on overriding a windows password only restoring to an older version which got my here in the first place. There is a prompt at Startup stating press any key to boot from CD. Pressing any key only leads to that same screen in windows asking for the password, except for the function keys that lead to BIOS configuration. Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. Cant imagine there is not a fix somewhere. Any other ideas? Look, these new laptop BIOS' can be most frustrating. Try a USB install using the memstick img - thats how I installed finally. I got jack of the messing about with the security measures they take on laptops these days. For reference, the boot settings in BIOS are pretty dynamic on the laptops now, so if you set the boot order it may change the next time you reboot from whatever you're doing. It _should_ let you do what you want once you exit BIOS though. And make sure of the boot order, it may be confusing. If you know someone who knows BIOS better, use them to help. Also look for a boot order key at boot up, this will change the boot order temporarily but you will have to be quick. You should probably make a decision about what you're going to do with the restore partition as well. You can make the disks on CD/DVD if you want so you can restore later, then dump it. Be aware (in this decision) that manufacturers can be real shits about *not* having Windows installed when you warranty repair. You may not want to have the fights like I have. Their policies _are_ illegal, but sometimes you may not want to have that particular argument... :) Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julian H. Staceyj...@berklix.com wrote: You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakleysilverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc list. BTW a delayed archive of this other lists in on the web. Next check the MD5 checksum of your boot media. Next also realise some drives cant read what other drives had written, sometimes that maybe alignement or dirt on the optics, someties it simply cos eg some old drives cant read those half see through RW media, sometime some old drives cant read an RW media. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix.http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Technical Support Question
Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On 02/16/12 06:14, Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Welcome to FreeBSD! FreeBSD and Windows are completely incompatible, I'm afraid. Can you boot from usb? You can download a memstick img from the same place you got your cd iso. More cost effective too - no old releases floating around for years; you just reuse the same old memstick! ;) If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well. The 9.0-RELEASE memstick is less than 654M, and I believe all are made to fit in 1G. The DVD image is larger, 2.2G. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
On 02/16/12 10:07, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote: If you try a memstick, make sure its big enough. Most of the smallest usb sticks you can buy are about 4G anyway, so it will work. You need about 1.5G. And I believe you can use SD or other memory cards as well. The 9.0-RELEASE memstick is less than 654M, and I believe all are made to fit in 1G. The DVD image is larger, 2.2G. Didn't fit on 1G when I tried, but maybe that was just RC3. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Technical Support Question
Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There are at least two possibilities to explain 'to no avail' -- which utterly fails to describe what actually happened. 1) the CD you made -- by unspecified means -- is not actually bootable, and the BIOS proceeds to the 'next' available boot device (the hard-disk) and boots Windows -- which wants the password you hve forgotten. 2) there is a *BIOS* password that you must supply before being able to boot _anything_ Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD and overwrite windows for my BSD installation? Probably. _IF_ the CD is 'bootable'. _IF_ the CD does not have read errors in the boot code. _IF_ the CD _drive_ is working properly, and is properly aligned. _IF_ the machine will boot from CD. _IF_ the machine BIOS is set to try to boot from the CD before other devices. You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
