Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:51:34 -0500 From: Scott Morris <smorris@tsi.gte.com> To: adam@choice.net (Mark Knipfer), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD v2.1.7 Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970331084914.496f89be@uhuru.tsi.gte.com>
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>David,
>
>This time I installed FreeBSD with nothing in the system, except for the hard
>drive, 1.44 floppy drive, 12x IDE cdrom, PCI video card... (a stripped down
>system to the bare minimum), and it installed but nothing works. I logged into
>the system and that is about all I can do, then shutdown the system. I
>selected the Average User installation and it installed, but not commands work.
>
>Is FreeBSD v2.1.7 compatible with an USR Courier x2 external modem?
>
>Here is how I installed FreeBSD:
>
>* Boot up on a MSDOS 6.22 diskette accessing the cd-rom. I switched to the c:
>(cdrom) drive since the hard drive has no partitions on it and used the
>makeflp.bat to create a bootable diskette.
>
>* I rebooted the system and boot up on the diskette. I then select:
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> (can't remember the exact steps)
> - Novice installation
> - Q - to quit by the hardware configuration
> - selected A for all of the hard drive for freebsd
> - selected Auto for it setting up the hard drive
> - selected average user installation
> - installed the os, created the user profile
> (selecting no on other options: web/ftp server/clients, etc)
> - logged into the system and that's about all I can do.
>
Logging in indicates a successful install in most cases. However
please clarify what you mean by "nothing works".
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Scott Morris
GTE Telecommunication Services
smorris@tsi.gte.com
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