Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:14:23 +0200 From: Frank Sonnemans <frank.sonnemans@euronet.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need help installing FreeBSD on Compaq Notebook Message-ID: <1734254384.972396863@[192.168.1.1]>
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I will need some help getting FreeBSD installed on a Compaq Armada 4100 Notebook. After trying many different installation schemes I am running out of ideas. I have tried ftp based installs and nfs based installs using a plip connection, but both failed. Following the harddrive configuration and labeling the system shows me that it is connecting to the ftp server or nfs share and then stops. Sometimes using nfs it will show something like extracting bin into / and than stops without errors. This installation has been a nightmare of problems. First of all it turned out that the floppy disk tracking is off. I cannot use a diskette made on another system. Initially the system ran windows which enabled me to use a laplink cable to upload the two installation disks to the notebook. The disks makde on the notebook itself load fine. Problem is that I have been unable to create additional disks this way since my install efforts have resulted in a repartitioned drive. I have two other PC's which I tried to use to get the install going. A pentium PC with a CD-Rom drive (my main workstation) and an old 486 without a cdrom (my internet gateway). Both run FreeBSD 4.0 stable. Unfortunately I cannot get a plip connection between the workstation and the notebook to work. So I copied the complete 4.0 release cd to the 486. The 486 supports a plip connection to the notebook. Unfortunately the ftp install with a copy of the files on the 486 did not work, nor did the nfs install. The nfs install just stops when trying to extract the bin distribution. The ftp installation quits with different errors: "couldn't open 4.0_release dir", "account needs password", etc. when I start an emergency shell I can manually mount the nfs share and execute commands from my network. Therefore I do not understand why the nfs install fails. I suspect now that the harddrive is causing problems. I have not yet tried a floppy disk based install nor a ppp based install. I could not create the floppies. I tried doing this with a nfs mounted system, running the commands of the network, but the notebook computer seems to run out of swap space which results in a frozen system. Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this? Can I use the commands available on the mfs-root disk to manually format / disklabel my drive so that I can do a manual install? Regards, frank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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