Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:32:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jamie Shelton <jamie@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Installation and booting of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009103054.3036L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971009133621.007a0100@pop.prodigy.net>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jamie Shelton wrote: > I am having large problems getting FreeBSD installed and working. I have > created the initial installation floppy using FDIMAGE. I have copied the > BIN files to floppies that I downloaded from freebsd.cdrom.com. It is > version 2.2.2-RELEASE. The install will boot up, I choose that I only want > to install the BIN and binary files because I will install X after getting > FreeBSD running. The BIN files go from BIN.AA-BIN.CT. All files are > copied, I assume you did not receive any errors while copying the archives? > FreeBSD Boot@0x10000:639/31744k of memory > Usage:[[[0:][wd](0,a)]/kernel][-abc(dghrsv] > Use 1:sd(0,a)Kernel to boot sd0 if it is BIOS drive 1 > Use ? for file list or press Enter for defaults > > > If I press Enter, I get the following: > > Boot: > dosdev-80,biosdrive=0,unit=0,maj=0 > Can't find /kernel. > > I have a Cyrix 200mhz with 32 megs of SDRAM, Western Digital 3.1gig hard > drive, S3 Virge Video card with 4 megs of ram. The FreeBSD partition is > 900 megs. I use the Auto command to create the labels in the partition. 1. what hapens if you hit `?' at the Boot: prompt? what do you get? 2. Is this the first partition on your hard drive? If not, what is the size of the first partition? You may be runing into the BIOS limit here. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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