Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 21:05:22 -0500 From: DDAN1955@aol.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: INSTALLING FREEBSD 4.4 ON A PC Message-ID: <961106210522_1847673897@emout11.mail.aol.com>
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NEED HELP TO INSTALL FREEBSD.......... I own a computer with 486 DX / 33MHz processor, 1.3 GB Hard Drive that has only DOS and CD-ROM driver installed. I am trying to install FREEBSD 4.4 on my computer and I am having all kinds of problems; 1. The installation program does not recognize my CD-ROM drive ( Creative Labs/ Sound Blaster) on the last step of the installation that asks for the source of installation. The CD-ROM works fine from the moment I initialize the “install” command until the last step of the installation routine. 2. As a result I have had to option for installation from “ a DOS partition”. I have created a new directory under DOS, C:\FREEBSD and I have copied all the files under the D:\mists\bin from the CD to the new directory on C:\. ( minimum required for installation) Then I followed all the steps described in the installation routine. At the end of the routine I have two error messages: - the system can not find some other bin.... files - which I have corrected by going back and copy from the CD into the hard drive; I think I have corrected since the file name not found is changing after a copy the previous ones; it does not seem to be a problem and eventually they all will be copied. - the second message is that the installation routine could not find the Kernel image file. I have ignored the message and I finished installation; at the end the last message is that I will not be able to boot from the hard drive. 3. Booting from the system from the hard drive brings up the boot initialization routine over and over and the boot will not go any further. Booting from a boot diskette is even worst; the boot routine goes into a hard drive check that never ends. ( it checks cylinders and heads ... that gets stuck on cylinder 46). I can use all the help I can get...... Thanks Dan
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