From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 03:07:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A18737B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BA643FAF for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:07:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h2QB7mpQ007416 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:07:48 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h2QB7mOE007415 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:07:48 GMT Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:07:48 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030326110748.GD5568@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EY/WZ/HvNxOox07X" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-37.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,MAILTO_TO_REMOVE, PGP_SIGNATURE_2,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:07:58 -0000 --EY/WZ/HvNxOox07X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (freebsd-hackers@ removed from CC: this is definitely -questions material.) On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:53:04PM +0800, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD into my personal computer, however= I am receiving error messages during the course of my installation. When I= am trying to install using the floppy method at the final prompt where the= istallation program requests me to put in floppy disk in drive a and press= enter. After putting in the disk and pressing enter I receive a warning or= error message like "Error mounting floppy fd0 (/dev/fd0) on /dist: Invalid= argument".=20 Floppy disks are not the most reliable of media. It's quite possible you've got a bad disk there. Try again with a different disk, preferably a brand new never used before one. When you say using the "floppy method" do you mean you're just using the floppies to boot from, and that you're going to download the bulk of the distribution by other means, or that you're really going to use a whole stack of floppies to copy in the entire distribution onto your system? If it's the latter, then I admire your dedication, but question your thinking. You will be sorely tried by that process. =20 > When I try to install it via FTP, at the end of the installatio= n procedure I receive a message like "Couldn't open FTP connection to ftp.f= reebsd.org: undefined error : 0" Can someone please help me troubleshoot = this problems which I had been facing with the installation of FreeBSD into= my personal computer. Hmmm... You don't exactly give us much detail to work on here. Some sort of indication of exactly what version of FreeBSD you're trying to install and a description of your hardware with as much detail as you can find: ideally something like this: 1 AMD Athlon +1600 CPU ASUS A7V266 Motherboard 512Mb PC2100 Ram Tekram DC-390U3W SCSI controller IBM 07N3200 U160 HDD (36Gb) Samsung SC1200TX NIC ELSA External 56k Fun Modem=20 but do the best you can if you don't know that sort of detail. The output of 'dmesg' or 'pciconf -l -v' can help clarify things if necessary. How, exactly, are you trying to make a connection to the net in order to get FTP access to the FreeBSD servers? For an FTP install you've either got to connect by a LAN which has routes out to the internet --- for instance, if you have an ADSL router or another machine with a modem and dial-up capability which you can route traffic through --- or you have to have a directly attached modem on your system. I suspect that this isn't applicable to your situation, but just to cover all bases: If you're connecting via a local network, then skip over all of the instructions about configuring PPP, and go directly to the screens for setting up an ethernet card. It works nicely by DHCP if that's available in your environment, otherwise, you'll have to obtain an IP number, the local netmask and the IP numbers of your local DNS servers and of the default gateway to the internet. Now, if I guess correctly, you're trying to use a 56k dialup via an analog modem. First question is: what sort of modem are you using? If it's an external modem that plugs into one of the serial ports or one of the older sorts of internal modem which appear to the system like another serial port --- ie. one with a real UART --- then you're all set to go. If it's an external device that plugs into a USB port, then I can't really say if it's going to work or not. If it's an internal "winmodem" type as supplied with most commodity PCs purchased in the last few years, then you are out of luck as far as *installing* FreeBSD that way. Once you have FreeBSD installed you may be able to install the comms/ltmdm port which provides drivers for a number of devices based on the Lucent LT chipset, but you'ld have to beg, borrow or steal an alternative modem to do the installation first. Can you boot into another operating system to verify that the modem functions correctly? Having established that you have a working and compatible modem, then you need some sort of dial-up account at an ISP. It's a kind of dumb thing to fall over on, but it happens: double check that you're using the correct account name and password for the ISP. You should be able to hit 'Alt F2' from the main sysinstall screen to see some much more detailed debugging output: check that for clues as to why you can't get a connection. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --EY/WZ/HvNxOox07X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+gYoEdtESqEQa7a0RArPjAKCKruyupTiYwKY5ObZ4s13l+BnbLACggJ9/ FwUDIEenC47wI0X1WCRiqZc= =I4YY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EY/WZ/HvNxOox07X--