2 harddrives

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Hi! I'm a first time user of FreeBSD and am having problems installing.

I have 2 hard drives on my computer, first hard drive has windows, and I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my second hard drive. I got to the point of overwriting my 2nd HD and assigning "slices" on my harddrive: x amount for swap, y amount for /usr, z amount for /

My only problem is I get an error right afterwards. I'm wondering if this error has anything to do with having two hard drives. Can anyone please point me to the right direction?
 
You've backup up the windows in case of error?
Maybe describe:
the hardware (sata, pata, type of keyboard, version
of bsd...)
the error, to narrow it down:
an irq conflict
not enough device drivers loaded to "find devices"
misconfiguration via GUI
not precise steps in the sysinstall panes
/dev/ad1 vs /dev/ad0 vs /dev/da0 etc...
other things that could go wrong.
Simply put, two hard drives should not be a problem.
 
where can i get the info on the variables you posted? (sata, pata, keyboard?)
i'm just using a pretty old cpu, 1.6 mhz processor and only ddr ram.

I tried installing: FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

I wrote down the error as:

Code: 
error mounting /dev/acd1 on /dist input output error (5)

I hope this helps, otherwise is there a way I could generate an error log and paste the contents? there was suppose to be a debug function that output the errors on VTY1, but I do not know how to copy and paste them using the keyboard.
 
Did you burn ISO correctly? Looks like its having trouble mounting the cdrom contents.... i find it better to burn ISOs at a slower rate for older drives.
 
Maybe not easy, nor relevant, but can you
temporarily remove the windows drive? Though
after install the /etc/fstab paths would
be wrong and would require single-user-mode
editing, if the install works with that.
(changing /dev/ad0 to /dev/ad1 everywhere afaik)
if the windows drive had been re-replaced.
...
Unless the same error you posted occurs.
 
i got it to work!

thanks so much for reading my troubles. oddly enough, it just worked by itself....
i probably would have just stopped trying if there was no freeBSD forum.
so thanks =D
 
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