Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent tosupport@freebsdmall

[Subhro]

Well this is really odd, But what you can try to do is, not go for the
automatic install. Instead first manually clean up the slices (partitions
whatever) and then go back to the automatic install. Although personally, I
would anyday prefer a custom install than a default one.

Regards
S.

Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Hobson
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:35
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Subject: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent
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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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