think I've settled

[Leon Goldstein]

Ric Moore wrote:

>On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:39 -0500, Leon Goldstein wrote:
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>>I am at this moment installing FreeBSD 6.2 on a lab rat.  I may be able 
>>to say "a pox on both your houses" eventually.
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>Jeeeez, and this is the only other guy on this list from Nawth Carlanky.
>The shame. <sighs> Owell, one day our feckless leader will insist that
>FreeBSD become known as Gnu/BSD and that will be our revenge. <evil
>cackles> Ric
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Well, the "pox" struck.  I installed FreeBSD 6.2 last night on a lab rat 
with a prior Solaris 10 install.
I can't boot it because of a disc geometry error.  The Solaris is still 
OK though.  I then installed the BSD bootloader; I can still boot 
Solaris, but only get pathetic bleeps when I select FreeBSD.

Apparently, my system can't handle two "slices."  fdisk reports a 12 MB 
unused area before both Solaris and FreeBSD.  NB:  I overwrote a FC6 
install (and swap) because I needed the primary partition.  FC6 was 
running fine, and Solaris' GRUB chainloaded it.

I'll give it another go after I wipe Solaris.  Looks like we are in for 
what is euphemistically called "winter weather" around here * so I am 
going to have a lot of time to kill between splitting firewood.

*  The weather forecast expects no nasty stuff, but the activity around 
my bird feeder has been intense this morning.  The local "college of 
cardinals" knows more about the weather than most people.


-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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