Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:35:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Mason <KMASON@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a machine with 2 hardrives -Reply Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961106223516.12066S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <s280acec.053@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Ken Mason wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I had jumpered the second drive to slave mode. > The release of FreeBSD that I was attempting to install was 2.1.0. I have > since downloaded 2.1.5 and which seems to recognize both hard drives > without any problem. Check. > However, I am now encountering a different > problem. I am able to do the initial configuration (including labeling and > partitioning both hard drives), however I am having trouble getting > beyond this point. When I do a Commit, some initial FreeBSD does some > set up and comes up with a message "Starting Emergency Holographic > Shell" and then asks for the next floppy. I insert the /bin/bin.aa-ae floppy > and then get another Emergency Holographic Shell message followed by > the message "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be > because they were not available on the installation media you've chose: > bin doc manpages dict". Ack! Make sure you put the files in \bin on the floppy and that bin.inf is there. 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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