Common install problem

I thought you could not do a low level format on an IDE because they were
formatted at the factory.

Am I misinformed?

Thanks,
Keith





----- Original Message -----
From: <proudhawk@uswestmail.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Common install problem


> sounds like one of those problems I had.
> I simply used an msdos low-level formatter, cleaned the drive
> and re-installed... I think there is a setting in there that tells freeBSD
to install a boot loader (which in this case, seems to have not been
properly loaded).
>
> On Thu, 29 March 2001, "Trent Shipley" wrote:
>
> >
> > I am trying to install a free *Nix OS on an ancient box that has a
Pentium-I
> > @ 125MHz, 32 Mbytes Ram and 10 GB IDE 33.
> >
> > All goes well until the reboot when I get the all-to-common little
flashing
> > cursor in the upper right hand corner of the screen. I know this is a
> > V-E-R-Y common install problem, but this is the first time I have had to
> > cope with it.
> >
> > In the past the little box has successfully run Slackware 3.x, Debian
> > Potato, and (briefly) Red Hat 6.2, even running X. However attempts
this
> > week with:
> >
> > Walnut Creek FreeBSD 4.2,
> > Slackware 7.1,
> > and Redhat 6.2
> >
> > Just return the little un-responsive cursor.
> >

> >    (As this will be used at work, I have a license preference for

FreeBSD.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Trent Shipley
> >
> > Work:
> > (602) 522-7502
> > mailto:tshipley@symbio-tech.com
> > http://www.symbio-tech.com
> >
> >
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