Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:42:38 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Wayne Van Der Merwe <VDMERWW@telkom.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed in installing Version 2.2.6 (First Timer) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626134215.25517D-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <s5936a14.089@telkom32.telkom.co.za>
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very simple, you need more RAM, 4 megs isn;t enough to install ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Wayne Van Der Merwe wrote: > Hi there all. I am new to FreeBSD, so my question could be stupid, > annoying to some, so I ask to please bear with me. > > The reason that I would like to install FreeBSD is to learn more about > Unix as I do not have a spare Unix box to fiddle on, so FreeBSD will > have to do. > > I do not have the money at the moment to get the FreeBSD 2.2.6 CDROM > from Walnut Creek & the Dollar to Rand (South African) ratio is out of > my packet. > > I FTP'ed, from ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub , the 2.2.6-release documents ie > bin, dict, des, doc, games, info, manpages, proflibs, src, tools, > floppies and all the .TXT files, as this seems to be the initial info > needed to install FreeBSD. > > Let me start > > 1) The PC that I want to install FreeBSD on is a Compaq Presario 460, > 486 processor, 4 Meg Ram, Stiffy Drive 1.44 Meg, ISA Expansion Bus, 270 > Meg Hard drive, VGA Monitor, One LPT port and one Com port. It has Dos > ver 6.20 and windows 3.1 > > 2) I have read all the documents. In the Installing FreeBSD is say's you > need 5 Meg of RAM to install and 4 Meg to run. So I take it that I need > more RAM to make 5 Meg. > > 3) I tried the Installing from Floppy method with no success. All that > happened is, the PC boots of the floppy, unloads the kernel them tells > me is I want to skip the Kernel config, edit it for a personal one or go > to CLI prompt. I used the one for personalise config of the Kernel. I > disable all the device drivers that do not correspond to my PC and saved > the settings. It the reboots and still goes back to the beginning, where > I have to start all over again, I used the one for personalise config of > the Kernel. I disable all the device drivers that do not correspond to > my PC and saved the settings ect. > > 4) I gave up on that and preceded to Installing from a DOS partition. I > must say that my PC has no partition on my C drive. I lapped-link all > the files in BIN to c:\FreeBSD\bin onto my PC. I used a setup program > that I got under the tools directory. It gives me an critical error: > DOS027 sector not found drive c. > > > Can some one help me out with this problem? > > > > > > > Thanks > > Wayne van der Merwe > Special Services Division > > E-Mail vdmerww@telkom.co.za > vdmerwe_wayne@hotmail.com > Phone +27 431 437498 > Fax +27 431 439393 > Web Page http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/marina/7106 > > 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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