a question or 2

[fbsd_user]

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: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of M B
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:52 PM
To: freebsd-questions at 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

fbsd_user at a1poweruser.com 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: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On 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

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