Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 05:02:04 EST From: sreid@edmbbs.iceonline.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie installing FreeBSD 2.0.5 from CD Message-ID: <9511210502.D6470wF@edmbbs.iceonline.com>
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I can't get FreeBSD 2.0.5 to install from my Walnut Creek CD. The install program doesn't recognize my CD drive, probably because it's a Mitsumi and there's no FreeBSD drivers for it. I hear there's a 2.1.0 that *does* include CD drivers... Is there any way to get the CD driver and use it for installing 2.0.5 from the CD? Another problem, most likely related to my lack of experience with UNIX... I tried to install a minimal setup, by copying the \dist\bin and \floppies directories from my CD to \freebsd on my Dos hard disk, and selecting "Install from a Dos partition" instead of "Install from CD". I couldn't get it to work, probably because I don't know how to split up the FreeBSD partition. I've set up a 210MB partition for FreeBSD, and selected 10 for the swap space, 100 for "/" and 100 for "/usr". I don't know exactly what "/" and "/usr" are for... I assume they're directories, but I don't know why they would need to be given seperate parts of the same partition. >>>I know very little about Unix.<<< During the install, the install program complains that it can't find "BOOT" or "ROOT" (I don't remember which, maybe both) and tries to look for it on a floppy. I tried creating a boot floppy with rawrite, but it doesn't seem to help the install program... I tried booting from the floppy, and it also complained about not being able to mount "BOOT" or "ROOT" (again, I don't remember which, maybe both). I don't even know what BOOT and ROOT are, except that they're important to the kernal. I am currently trying to set up FreeBSD (for educational purposes) on my home system, which is a 486SX-25 with 4MB of RAM, a 329MB IDE HD, and a 1x speed Mitsumi CD-ROM interfaced through an ATI Stereo F/X-CD sound card. I will eventually be setting it up on a Web Server / dial-up Internet Service Provider, which will probably be a Pentium 90 with 16-32 megs of RAM, 1 gig HD, and a 56k (T1 eventually) line to the internet. I figured a flavour of Unix would work a lot better for an Internet server than some Galacticomm software under Dos. I have practically no experience with Unix... I'm not sure if choosing to admin a Unix system was brave or just stupid. <g> Fortunately, I've been computing for a long time... I've mastered Dos, and I do whatever programming I need in C. Still, Unix is unlike any OS I've dealt with before, and I'd appreciate any help I can get.
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