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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:38:20 +0530
From:      Hardeep Parmar <hardeep.parmar@tatainfotech.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Gary Schrock'" <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
Subject:   RE: installing 3.1-rel either by dos partition or ppp
Message-ID:  <01BE7460.E1BFFA10@sybco046>

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Hello, I am of the opinion that you could set your options during install as
type none    /* OS Type to install */

Also you could make directory C:\freebsd push /bin to C:\freebsd so that you have all your binaries in
C:\freebsd\bin\.
This has worked for me once.I hope it does work for you also.


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From: 	Gary Schrock
Sent: 	Sunday, March 21, 1999 12:46 AM
To: 	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: 	installing 3.1-rel either by dos partition or ppp

Ok, this is beginning to get a little frustrating, since I've never had a
problem before when installing freebsd, but now I just can't seem to have
any luck at all.

Here's the story, I've got the 2 disk floppy set from 3.1-release.
Unfortunately I've got a plug and pray modem in the machine (which is *not*
a winmodem type, it's a real modem), and freebsd doesn't seem to recognize
it.  If I set sio3 to the proper settings the modem has when I'm in win95,
when booting I get a message about the irq for sio3 not being in the
interrupt mask or something like that.

Ok, I figure that's no real big deal, I'll just download the parts I need
to the dos partition and try doing the installation like that.  So I create
a freebsd directory on c:\ and stick a bin directory under that and
download everything in the bin directory on the ftp site. Go through the
install process, and then when it gets to the point where it tries to
install the distributions I've asked for, it says it can't find the bin
distribution.

Ok, I figure if I can't get that way to work, I'll stick my old modem in
that's not plug and pray, and try that.  Freebsd recognizes that it's
there, and I go through the process of setting up the ppp link, and that
appears to set up properly.  Switch back and tell it to continue and I get
an error message when it tries to connect, something like "Unkown error 0",
and the process fails.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get this to work, especially the install
from dos partition one (since the files are already downloaded and I
wouldn't have to go through the time downloading them again), I'd really
appreciate it.

Oh, one other thing I thought was pretty odd, don't know if this is
related.  When I switch to vt4, I don't seem to have any commands like ls
(cd works, but that's about all I've found that seems to work).  I know in
previous versions of the freebsd install stuff I was able to do things like
ls on that shell.

Thanks,



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