Ok, long time old school FreeBSD 4.x user here coming back to the fold. I briefly had 7.2 and 7.3 running on an old machine, but it's since been repurposed. I tried to get 7.2 going on this old P3 I have (I have 7.2 CD's and the machine had only a CDRW drive, no DVD) but ran into a snag. The machine has a pair of 6GB hard drives in it. With linux, I usually have the primary mounted as / and the second drive has swap and /home mounted. I tried to do this with the 7.2 installer yet when I get to select the drives to use, it only allows me to select one drive, then forces me over to the slice/partitioning utilities. No matter how hard I try, I cannot get it to set up both drives for use with FreeBSD. Is this correct??? I'm now looking at installing 8.2, will I have the same issue with this installer also?
Now, about installing 8.2... I need to do this as a network install via http or ftp since this box doesn't have a DVD drive on it (I have the 8.2 iso downloaded already). I have a Vista machine on my network running Apache that I use strictly for this purpose for my linux installs. I just extracted the 8.2 iso to my http directory and got a ton of errors complaining about duplicate filenames (I compared the dates and file sizes to see if they were dupes and it looks like they were) along with a bunch of issues with .inf files located in the 8.2-RELEASE\src\ directory (i.e ssbin.inf, ssecure.inf, etc...).
Knowing this, will it be safe to try to kick off this install or should I try to use one of my Linux VM's on the same machine as a web server to host the FreeBSD files as this might be a Windows related issue?
Now, about installing 8.2... I need to do this as a network install via http or ftp since this box doesn't have a DVD drive on it (I have the 8.2 iso downloaded already). I have a Vista machine on my network running Apache that I use strictly for this purpose for my linux installs. I just extracted the 8.2 iso to my http directory and got a ton of errors complaining about duplicate filenames (I compared the dates and file sizes to see if they were dupes and it looks like they were) along with a bunch of issues with .inf files located in the 8.2-RELEASE\src\ directory (i.e ssbin.inf, ssecure.inf, etc...).
Knowing this, will it be safe to try to kick off this install or should I try to use one of my Linux VM's on the same machine as a web server to host the FreeBSD files as this might be a Windows related issue?
