Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:53:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Keith Ng <kng@caravelle.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Troubles Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960913215234.615C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3238674A.1943@caravelle.com>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Keith Ng wrote: > I seem to have trouble installing FreeBSD. I'm having trouble in trying > to configure FreeBSD on the network. FreeBSD is not detecting the > NE2000 network card for some odd reason. Is there anyway to get the OS > working? Boot with the -c option and check that device ed0 has the proper IRQ and I/O base address configured. > The other problem I am also having trouble is when I install FreeBSD bin > distribution set through floppies is that I get a writing disk error -1 > at fd0. The installation will skip the rest of the bin and install the > rest of the distribution files. Could this be a installation error or > maybe an error in the partition? bin is required. If you didn't install it then you shouldn't be able to boot. Check the archive files -- make sure they are all OK and that the 'bin.inf' file is on the first bin floppy. 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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