Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:00:01 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: SOS for a Freebsd instalation] Message-ID: <32B66111.100F@shoal.net.au>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------526278C53C92 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit tried to send this to you but it was returned with "no such local user" so i'll post it to the list, hopefully you'll see it and if i've made a mistake someone will correct me --------------526278C53C92 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <32B65605.4241@shoal.net.au> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 18:12:53 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dirk Hans Krakaur Floranes <dkrakavr@ccr.dsi.uanl.mx> Subject: Re: SOS for a Freebsd instalation References: <199612161556.HAA13885@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit mate, i've just been through the same thing. you need the bin files in /bin on the floppies and make sure that the following files are on the first diskette: A:\BIN\BIN.INF A:\BIN\INSTALL.SH A:\BIN\CHECKSUM.MD5 and maybe A:\BIN\BIN.MTREE i didn't experiment too much but the first two i think were definitely needed on the first disk, you don't have to have 5 bin.a? files on each disk either (although they will fit with these 3 files) as long as they are in order. hope this helps let me know how you go andrew perry andrew@shoal.net.au Dirk Hans Krakaur Floranes wrote: > > ok, this is a bigone so readit if you have time... > > this is a (REAL) history of a friend of my called johny 5 > and its obsesion whit a failed intent of installing > freebsd 2.1.5. > > like 4 months ago jonhy and a freind called jimbo, > tried to install freebsd 2.1.5 in the jimbo's > "pentium-166-16-ram-1.6-gigabyte-windows-95-equiped" > computer... > > they didnt have enougth money to bougth the cd so they > downloded the system from one of the ftp of freebsd.org > in brazil. > > they downloaded the boot4.flp fixit.flp and all the > /bin subdirectory > > and for some reason the boot.flp didnt function so they > used the boot4.flp and evrythings was going so far so > good until they discover thath didnt have space for > another partition.. they didn't know of the fips utility > so after a week they get 23 diskettes & backup all > in the backup was all the bin.?? files and some of the > information that jimbo didnt want to loose... > > so they runed again the boot.flp that they already have > rawrite in a disk.. the from the partitions > utility in the novice window of the installation > program they erased all of the dos partition and then settled > 300 megabytes for a partition of freebsd... > then they reiniciated formated the rest of the disk > installed installed windows 95 filesystem only from a boot disk > with the A:> sys c: command , and > with A:>pkunzip -d freebsd.zip c: they restored the backup > then > they formated all the 20 diskettes > whit the C:>format a: /u > they was specialy carefull in that none > of it had a bad cluster or something > in this case they used another... > all the diskettes was perfect and formated > so they created the bin subdirectory in each one > and copied in it the bin files. > 5 bin in each one... > exactly like the instalation.txt indicates > > evrything was going well and they was very (i mean very) > ilusioneted, motivated, > all this proccess took like five or 6 hours since the begging > until then... then the bug came out... > it was the worst thing that you could imagine. > the most frustrating one. > all the installation process was going well... > the partition, the labeling / they read it all the menus > so they worked well whit evrything > in the media the chosee flopy disks set > in the distribution the one marked as bin. > and then it happen > evrything was going well until the menu > "please insert the flopy disk" > they inserted the first diskette whit the > A:\BIN\BIN.AA > A:\BIN\BIN.AB > A:\BIN\BIN.AC > A:\BIN\BIN.AD > A:\BIN\BIN.AE > files in the drive and then hit the enter > whit sweat int he face and the heart pumping. > and a menu that says > > "Couldn't extract the following distributions > this maybe becouse they were not available on > the instalation media you have chosen" > bin > > they were fully determined so they tried evrything > from changing the directory of a:\bin > to a:\dist > & then to a:\dist\bin, a:\bin.aa, a:\freebsd\bin > a:\freebsd > i mean evrything > then they tried installing from a msdos partition > they created the C:\FREEBSD\BIN directory > and then copied the bin files to it > the same thing happen. > the same awful menu. > > the worst was that the instalation program > didnt find a kernel image to link so they have > to boot from the flopies constantly > > after a few hours triying they give it up > and tried whit the fixit flopie > > the floppie replied whit a # > > and they didn't know enougth unix to fixit.. > > after all they didn't have been root's never. > so they give up heartbrokenly. > > that was 4 months ago... > the last week jhony tried in his own computer the > same thing... this time he had readit all of the > install.txt and most of the freebsd online handbook in fact. > so whit the fips utility he created another partion > of 480 megabytes in the 1.6 Gb (IDE) of his > pentium /133 24-ram computer > and tried exactly the same thing. > and exactly the same thing happened: > > he had downloaded the fips. the boot.flp, fixit.flp > and bin.aa to bin.ee from ftp mirror #2 in a near > computer that had internet conection, > compressed put it back in home uncompresed and installed. > the version was again the 2.1.5 & > this time he had special careful in formating the > diskkets from a ms-dos (6.22) based machine. > (this time the boot.flp works well > and the help files where available > something that wasn't in the boot4.flp) > > and exactly the same thing happened... > he tried again changing the ms-dos subdirectorys > and installing from a ms-dos partition > there where no diferrence. > > but > > this time johny 5 was fully determined. > he find a old unix SVR5 reference manual > put the fixit floppie inside and tried for over 12 > continuos hours to learn enough unix to make the install > proccess from the hostile # prompt. > > he tried mounting and umounting, making nfs to the hard > disk, whit fsck, changing the path removing the floppie > & trying of copy the kernel from the boot.. > > then mounting the ms-dos partition and coping > the bin. files to a new bin directory in /dev/wd0s2 mounted > as /mnt > > and then trying to uncompress it with restore & rrestore > the with gunzip, whit zcat > > he look evrywhere for a command > like the 'sys' of ms-dos > so he dont have to boot from floppie > > some of this functioned... but none enougth to install > the bin files or to link the kernel in the hard disk > > he become obsesionated whit it and since then he is still > trying but now had become pale and thin. > he didnt ate or drink nothing or almost nothing, if some > one speaks to him he didn't answer > or says something about 'the kernel' > im worried about im and his live > so i decided to write this letter to those fellows in > freebsd.org that surely could help. > what should johny do > where was the mistake? > in compressing the files at the beggining? > should he downloaded it again and try it all? > its a bug in the installation program? > should the bin files go in another subdirectory? > i mean it was in a:\bin > should it be in a:\dist? or something > its a bug in the instalation program? > are somewhere a procedure to install the kernel > and the all the system in the hard disk trougth > the fixit # prompt ? > and finally... > to install freebsd, what should he done? --------------526278C53C92--
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