From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 22:58:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA16817 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.230]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16811; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00282; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 22:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation fails In-Reply-To: <9607200414.AA09748=aeb@zeus-184.cwi.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 20 Jul 1996 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > In the meantime I tried a different approach and wrote > 2.1.5-RELEASE to a SCSI tape and installed from there. > The installation process was more or less successful; > it complained `couldn't extract compat1x compat20 commerce xperimnt' > even while this release did contain subdirectories > commerce and xperimnt (and compat21). Did you put them on the tape? They aren't consequential so I wouldn't get too worried. You can just install them later if you need them. > I also got a `unable to fetch samba-1.9.15p8' (or sth very similar). Network problem or a change in file. Try pulling the port from ftp.freebsd.org and building again. If you have to, the original distfile is in ports-2.1.5/distfiles. > One very funny point was that at the point where I had to give my > local time the digit 7 did not work (but 6 and 8 did) - very strange. Don't believe the timezone selector. Believe date(1). > One point in the installation procedure consisted of the question > whether a boot manager should be installed. I have a rather > delicate setup with 3 IDE and 3 SCSI disks, and as far as I can > see there is no information at all about the precise properties > or configuration of this boot manager, so I answered No. > > But now I find that I have no means to boot this installed system! Well, you didn't install a boot manager! :-) You can put it back on yourself. Grab "bootinst.exe" and 'boot.bin' from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/. > The fixit floppy is not a boot floppy - booting from it leads to > an attempt at destroying my floppy reader - instead of halting, > the system gets into an infinite boot cycle. > And the install floppy, which is a boot floppy, doesn't seem to > offer the opportunity to start the just installed system. No. You have to boot the boot floppy first, then jump to the fixit from there (there is a "fixit" option on the main menu). > So my present question is: is there a way to let the installation > procedure make a boot floppy that boots a given partition? > Or can I ftp somewhere a working boot floppy? > Or can I escape from the install procedure of the install floppy? Not without rebuilding the entire system. Try to get the boot manager working first. > [Under Linux I have a root filesystems on the fourth and fifth > disks but kernel images on the first or second disk so that > LILO or OS/2 BM can find it, and the kernel is booted with > parameter root=/dev/sdb3, for example. I hope that it is not > required that FreeBSD lives on the first or second disk.] The OS/2 boot manager should pick it up no problem as long as you've told it about it in OS/2 FDISK. I use it here and it works stupendously. Note that booting from a third IDE disk is impossible (well, maybe not with OS/2 Boot Manager, it can do some pretty amazing stuff). I don't know about booting from other SCSI disks, whether the boot ROMs will map it out okay. (I doubt it :( ) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major