Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:36:57 -0400 From: Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip@CS.McGill.CA> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1.0-R Message-ID: <199604291536.LAA21766@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca>
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>From dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu Mon Apr 29 03:14:44 1996 >On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: >> I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. I can't seem >> to get a valid kernel on the hard disk. [...] >If this is a new install, you MUST include the bin dist. No >choice. That is why you are missing a kernel; it is in there. > >I guess I'm confused as to what you are doing. Are you trying to install >a new system? Or are you trying to prepare a new empty disk? The bin dist was on the slave disk, which doesn't seem to be an available option under the Media menu. But I solved my problem. I went into the holographic shell using Alt-F4, I mounted the slave disk's 2.0.5 filesystem on /mnt and the master disk's DOS partition on /dos. Then I copied the bin dist from the 2.0.5 fs to the DOS partition (in C:\FREEBSD\BIN). After that, I selected "DOS partition" in the Media menu and the rest went relatively well. I thought that when I cleared the set of distributions to install, it would avoid extracting the bin dist. I also thought that the GENERIC kernel to be put on the hard disk was some sort of modified copy of the boot floppy's kernel. I guess I thought too much. >> This is confusing because I don't always follow the program's >> reasoning. Things seemed to be easier before the installation >> procedure was made user-friendly... > >Your sentement is shared with one of my colleagues -- he prefers the >1.1.5.1 text-based install. Interesting... Thanks for your help. Pierre.
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