Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:02:23 -0400 From: mkwan <mkwan@terra.cnct.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help Needed!!! Message-ID: <199606110102.VAA06276@terra.cnct.com>
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Hi, I have run into some severe problems when I tried to install the 2.1 version of the FreeBSD. I believe my hardware is fine because I had 2.0 running on it previously. Due to the recommedation from your document, instead of upgrading to 2.1, I am installing 2.1 from scratch. I have a 486/50 with 16M Ram, an IDE DOS hard disk and a SCSI hard disk dedicated to FreeBSD. The first step I did was to format the whole 1.08G disk as a primary DOS disk. I did this because, previously I have a 20/80 partition scheme for DOS/FreeBSD. I chose "A" when the installation script asked how I want to use the disk and "No" to whether I want to keep the disk geometry aligned for other operating systems. The geometry came back as 1/1/1 for cylinder/bsd/sector. Is that correct? Or should I reset the geometry of the hard disk.? If so, what should be the configuration? I ran pfdisk but I don't know what to set the disk to. Last, I chose the CDROM as the installation media and then the process started to roll. It balked at mounting /mnt/dev/sd01f on /mnt/usr. I thought that the "f" partition should be mounted on /usr instead since I used the default partition scheme by choosing "A" when asked. The biggest problem came when it tried to extract the "bin" distribution. During the course of extracting the stuff, there would be checksum errors. I tried this installation procedure many many times. The checksum errors sometimes started after 10%, 39%, 50% had been loaded. After so many times, I finally began to doubt my CDROM drive and so I tried to do a minimum installation from DOS. Same problems occurred! Please help me ASAP as this has become a frustrating experience for me. I thought getting 2.0 up was easy enough and getting 2.1 up should be a breeze. Thank you for your kind attention! Mabel Kwan
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