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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 16:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Steve Howe <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905251641340.13061-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>

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Please wrap your lines. Thanks.

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Steve Howe wrote:

>   ...I'm trying to install FreeBSD2.2.8 on an HP Brio with a
> (non-supported) Goldstar CDROM - CRD8322B. So the CD option doesn't
> work.

Er?  It should work with the ATAPI/IDE driver without any intervention on
your part.

>   I've made myself a boot floppy, following the normal instructions,
> which seemed to work fine, but only did half the job, in that a boot
> manager was successfully installed, and Windows 98 (spit) can't see
> the disk that I allocated to freebsd.

That's normal.  Windows doesn't know how to read UFS.

>   But it never had the ability to download all those fine unixy things
> like files because it had nowhere to download them from.

You don't have a dial-up connection?

>   I got on to the web, and found some documentation telling me to copy
> floppies\kern.flp, and floppies\mfsroot.flp from the CDs. Only problem
> was that I can't find them on the CDs. And I can't see how this will
> enable me to download the rest of the stuff that I will need from the
> CDs either. What's the plan there?

They are _certainly_ on CD 1, or at
ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/floppies.

Doug White                               
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