Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:02:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: /G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Install from DOS partition Message-ID: <199604170302.XAA01383@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <Tue_Apr_16_12:56:32_1996;/DD.ALISA=SANDELD/G=David/S=Sandel/P=EMOTORCO/A=ATTMAIL/C=US> from "/G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com" at "Apr 16, 96 12:56:31 pm"
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/G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com wrote... > How do I get the second virtual console ..... ALT-F2 gets yo there, a string of informative (?), enlightening(?) and/or infuriating(!) messages appear there throughout the install procedure. > > The images came off the FreeBSD CDROM ..... Aargh. In that case, they probabaly aren't busted. Hmm. My next guess is to do with disk geometry. How did you create the FreeBSD partition, FIPS :-\ or FDISK? Is the FAT partition Win95 or DOS (long/short file names) and are you 100% sure that all the bin.* images in the freebsd\bin directory look exactly like the ones on the CD? > > What next ?? Keep plugging. We aren't beaten yet. By the way - what kind of hardware do you have - what EIDE controller / motherborad, etc. John > ________________________________________________________________________ > _______ > From: John Brann on Tue, Apr 16, 1996 2:35 AM > Subject: Re: Install from DOS partition > To: Sandel, David > > > /G=David/S=Sandel/DD.ALISA=SANDELD@mhs-emerson.attmail.com wrote... > > Hi There --- > > > > > > I have everything setup to install from a DOS partition on a PC. > > I am running W95 and have 1gig for windows and 1 gig for FreeBSD. > > Hmm, FreeBSD's root slice needs to be below the 1024 cylinder mark (due > to > BIOS restrictions) if you're going to boot from it. This setup may bite > you, once the installation is done. > > > > > I have the dos partition mounted and the Freebsd has autodefault > > partitions. OK ... no problemo ... so far ... > > > > anyway ... I do a novice installation, average X user, and then start > > up the install. It runs for a while .... mounts the dos drive and > > starts > > copying files .... gets into the stand/ls copy and then gets an error > > > > > > gunzip: stdin : invalid compressed data-format violated > > /stand/cpio: premature end of file > > DEBUG : dummy[default] close called for sd0s1 with fd of 6. > > DEBUG : switching back to VTY1 > > 99.999% certain to be just what it says :-) > > Looks like one of your installation files is busted - bad ftp or > something. Find out which file it is (from the second virtual console) > and replace it. How did you get the install images? Youd didn't ftp > them as ASCII files, by any chance? > > > > > > > then .... > > > > > > > > failed to load root distribution ..... > > > > > > what should I do from here ??? > > > > > > Dave Sandel > > Emerson Motor > > 8100 W. Florissant > > St. Louis, MO. 63136 > > > > 314-553-2772 > > > > Regards, > > John > > -- > Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. > > finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key > -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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