From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 18: 0:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175D237BB06 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from hacker (hutch-255.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.183]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA31280; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:00:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <012e01bfed2e$c8fa7940$b7430ace@hacker> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Rob Wilkinson" , References: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca> Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:59:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Wilkinson" To: 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