I am installing Free-BSD latest version on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 over as an host on Hyper-V which is the virtualization technology comes bundled with the product !! Hope you know about that !! I have tried the FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso both have unsuccessful installation results I have tried installation a couple of times. The dvd works great and shows all the options. I have tried the installations with standard, Express and custom installation options. I am choosing to install it in entire disk. Then under "Install Boot Manager for drive ad0?" <I think there is some problem here> I have tried it a couple of times with all the three options> But none of them works Under Label : I have chosen "Auto Defaults". Under Distributions i have chosen: "Developer", "Kern-Developer" and "User" Media type: CD/DVD and then i click commit Everything works up till here: Then it shows the progress bar, Message : "Extracting base into / directory". In the end this message is shown: ============================================== Message Write Failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) (100%) ============================================== Now if it goes back to the same screen where it says : "Choose custom installation options" It is this time that i got this error!! Earlier it was once when the write was successful and then i rebooted the machine but that time it was giving strange error after the reboot saying that there are no Boot manager Fix: I think that FreeBSD is not able to write the boot partitions onto the disk or not even anything at all. How-To-Repeat: Please install the latest version of freebsd on and over Hyper-V on windows 2008 R2 as guests. I have tried to install version 7 over hyper-V and it goes all fine and then it reboots well , but there is another problem there : I am unable to do "startx". Plz help me because i am a freeBSD fan and i want to use this Operation system as my base (host) Os in future : Like using it with xen. Please help me so that i can try my hands on FreeBSD
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