Partitioning HD for FreeBSD

From: Marc Champagne (news_at_ctldirect.DOT.com.invalid)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:30:41 GMT

Hi gang!

I'm new to FreeBSD (but not to unix) and am having troubles
understanding how the partitioning works at setup time.

I have 1 HD (SCSI 18gig) of which all is for FreeBSD.

I tried the complete FreeBSD installion using thes 2 setups
as partitions (no boot manager was installed)

     slot1) Primary, , 700meg, type 82, Linux Swap
     slot2) Primary, boot, 17800meg, type 83, Linux
     slot3) empty
     slot4) empty

that didn't work, so I then tried

     slot1) Primary, boot, 17700meg, type 83, Linux
     slot2) Primary, , 300meg, type 82, Linux Swap
     slot3) empty
     slot4) empty

In both cases I CAN boot via the BOOT disk created at
installation time, but when booting from HD I get "NO OS"

DEVICES
===============
Adaptec SCSI
SCSI HD
SCSI CDROM

BIOS
============
IDE HD's are set to NONE
Primary Boot = SCSI

Any help would be appreciated in setteing up the partionions

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