Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:46:02 +0200 From: Wayne Van Der Merwe <VDMERWW@telkom.co.za> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help needed in installing Version 2.2.6 (First Timer) Message-ID: <s5927ee0.096@telkom32.telkom.co.za>
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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-stable" in the body of the message
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