Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:38:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupx@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installation query Message-ID: <19991011203815.1795.rocketmail@web217.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dear sir/ madam I recently downloaded the required files and documentation to install release 3.3 on my intel-based system, but have now reached a point where things are not proceeding as expected. The steps I have taken so far are to create a suitable partition on the single 2gb IDE hard-drive, and go through the twin-floppy boot / installation procedure (from 2 formatted floppies prepared with the fdimage commands) most of the way through. Everything seems fine, through the hardware configuration screen, (deleting unwanted scsi / network /other adaptors, and so on), then into the create partition editor screen. I have a 800mb partition set aside for Freebsd, which I split using the auto settings for /, /swap, /var, and /usr (giving a split of 40mb, 60 mb, 20mb, and some 600mb, approx.) the downloaded install file set is located in what appears to be the correct location on drive C:, \Freebsd\bin, \floppies, and \manpages, but after accepting all the settings and clicking "ok" to go ahead on the final screen, an error occurs, and the process announces that it was "unable to extract ...from ..<drivename>", and has halted. The last attempted action before this is "extracting ... from ..." (i can try and provide exact wording if necessary). there is a message saying "attempt retry, yes or no ?", but the results never improve on any amount of retries. The install routine then advises to remove floppies from drives, and that pressing ok will reboot. It seems a pity to get stuck with the installation at what would appear to be the very last stage, but so far the system has not booted successfully into freebsd after the above procedure. The system appears otherwise to be functioning normally, ie. the fips disk partitioning action was successful, on a hardware boot-up, the freebsd boot selection menu (F1 -DOS, F2 - FreeBSD) appears, and responds correctly, launching Windows 95 if dos is selected, and attempting to boot freebsd if F2 is selected. The prompt which appears on attempted freebsd boot is: ___ /i386 boot: wd__ ( 1,a) /kernel (where ___ signifies wording which I cannot exactly remember). I have typed in a variety of commands at this prompt, but the only response is some form of echo of the command entered, often preceded by the word no, eg. "no dev", or "no man found", etc ... One question which springs to my mind with this problem is how much control over transfer from the DOS partition of the hdd to the freebsd slice can be expected, beyond ensuring the installation files are in the correct directories. Any advice about what to do next would be greatly appreciated. yours sincerely Jean-Mark Dupoux ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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