Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:35:44 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: "Mihai Mateescu" <mateescu_mihai@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help Message-ID: <200303062335.44744.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <F18ngI33xlrOXigtYTh00013401@hotmail.com> References: <F18ngI33xlrOXigtYTh00013401@hotmail.com>
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On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:08 pm, Mihai Mateescu wrote: > Hello ! > I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer, but I failed in the worst way I > could: I didn't take serious your advise to back-up my data... ooh, bad idea ;) > Well, I tried to install FreeBSD on a partition on my IDE drive. I must say > that I had 4 partitions on a harddrive with 20GB. I used fdimage to make > the two floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). I started the intallation > process with kern.flp, then with mfsroot.flp and I entered in sysinstall. I > begun a standard installation and I created a slice (after I made unused a > DOS partition). Then I installed the FreeBSD boot manager (this is the only > thing working know) and I tried to install the minimal distributions from a > DOS partition. I downloaded from ftp server the entire subdirectory "base" hmm, this is a little more of a nonstandard way of installing, try one of the other methods if your hardware allows. The mini-install iso's are pretty convenient and not *too* bad to download. > from the 5.0 release directory and I copied into C:\FreeBSD. The Man, you really like to avoid reading warnings don't you ;) see the early adopter's guide. 5.x is really for people with more experience right now. > installation ended soon with this message: > "Error mounting /dev/ad0s3 on /dist: operation not supported by > device(19)" > After I clicked on OK buton, another message appeared: > "Unable to initialize selected media. Would you like to adjust your > media configuration and try again?" this may be because of the way your drive is partitioned. If it is not totally standard, the FreeBSD installer may be getting confused. > Another thing: the first kernel configuration menu did not appear; that's > why I did not configured any of the drivers. I think they got rid of that visual configurator completely in 5.0 > My questions are: > "What should I do ?" Try 4.7-rel > dial-up connection. I dowload many hundreds of megabytes over my dial-up. Just make sure you have something else to do :) Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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