From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 10:52:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04787 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04669 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15968; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:52:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:52:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tyler Ripley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Tyler Ripley wrote: > I'm installing FreeBSD on a Windows '95 system. I've gotten to the end > of the installation questions, and I'm stuck at the actual installation. > I'm installing via FTP server, and I connected to my ISP, and when I > switched back to the other window (Alt-F1), and hit enter, it gave me at > least half a dozen errors. First it said, no swap file was found. Then > it couldn't find the /usr area, etc. I don't think it even downloaded > anything because the error messages came up right away. Now, I know I > have the partition info right, because I created a slice for FreeBSD, > but it didn't say anything about a swap file. Can you help me? Are you sure you: . specified a slice and partitions to install to? (fdisk/partition editors) . Distributions to load? . You used fips or PartitionMagic to split off some of your Windows space for use by FreeBSD? (delete the newly made partition) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message