From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 23:10:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Ngate.in.tatainfotech.com (unknown [202.54.102.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20DB14CFC for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hardeep.parmar@tatainfotech.com) Received: from nepzmail.in.tatainfotech.com ([163.122.23.5]) by Ngate.in.tatainfotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA12105; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:44:44 -0500 Received: from sybco046 by nepzmail.in.tatainfotech.com (8.6.10/SMI-4.1) id MAA29843; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:38:13 GMT Received: by sybco046 with Microsoft Mail id <01BE7460.E1BFFA10@sybco046>; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:38:26 +0530 Message-ID: <01BE7460.E1BFFA10@sybco046> From: Hardeep Parmar To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "'Gary Schrock'" Subject: RE: installing 3.1-rel either by dos partition or ppp Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:38:20 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ---------- 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, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message