From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 5 03:07:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA14104 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 03:07:41 -0800 Received: from usnet.us.net (usnet.us.net [192.103.66.66]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA14093 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 03:07:38 -0800 Received: from [198.240.65.10] (endA02.usnet.us.net [198.240.65.10]) by usnet.us.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA18558; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 06:09:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 95 06:11:20 EDT From: "Stuart Hoffman" Message-Id: <36959.stuart@mail.us.net.> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_16 Reply-To: X-POPMail-Charset: English To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Questions Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.0 CD, but I am having installation problems. Here's my situation: a. When I try to install from the CD-ROM, after booting from the floppy diskettes and partitioning the SCSI hard drive, the installation program cannot read from my SCSI CD-ROM attached to my Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller. b. After copying the contents of the CD-ROM to an MS-DOS hard drive partition, I cannot get the installation program to install from the MS-DOS partition. It says that it cannot mount /dev/sd0e, the name for the MS-DOS partition. Here are my questions: 1. What is the proper way to install from an MS-DOS hard disk partition? 2. How can I make floppies to install the entire thing from floppy disks? 3. How do I fill in the information fields in order to install using FTP from freebsd.cdrom.com? I have a SLIP account with us.net, but it was not clear to me how to fill in the FTP fields. For instance, what is the "IP number" for freebsd.cdrom.com? Do I use my IP address, user name, and host name from US Net, even though I am not connected at that point? Thanks for you help! Stuart Hoffman