Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:59:32 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Rob Wilkinson" <Chains@Ultranet.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 Message-ID: <012e01bfed2e$c8fa7940$b7430ace@hacker> References: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Wilkinson" <Chains@Ultranet.ca> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM Subject: Installation on a 486-2/66 > I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system. > > My System: > ^^^^^^^^^ > 486 DX2/66 > 8MB of RAM > ISA Western Digital 340MB hardrive > Motherboard: 452S (with VL-BUS) > > Disk Configuration: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > 40MB DOS partition including the minimal install files > in directory C:\FreeBSD\BIN > > The other partition is allocated to FreeBSD > > The Problem: > ^^^^^^^^^^ > After first going through the "OPTIONS" feature in the install, > I selected install from MS-DOS partition 1. This works OK! > > Next when the installation setup program asked me to FDISK, > I selected the unused partition for FreeBSD, created and set the > slice as bootable. This works OK! > > For setup, i selected "A" for automatically configure the directories. > This worked ok! > > **FINALLY, when it began installing from MS-DOS, it gets to about > 9% (chunk 12 of 130) and it just sits there! My original install from > the > floppies (27 diskettes), would have the same problems (which is why > I decided to install from MS-DOS on the same hardrive). I noticed that > once i was able to install all the way up to 35% from diskette before > the > setup program decided to freeze. By hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE after > freezing, sometimes it would continue installing. But recently it just > starts > re-installing the entire bin distribution after it gives me a read > failure message. > > I have attempted to install FreeBSD many times but have been stopped at > the same problem. Could you give me any insight as to why I would > have this problem? Should i purchase the FreeBSD distribution CD > and install from there? > Where is the copy of FreeBSD that you have from? It sounds to me like the copy you have may be corrupted. I would give up on the floppy install, as it is pretty hard to make that many floppies without there being some kind of error on one of them. Josh > Thanks, > Rob > > > > 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
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