Date: 28 Mar 96 17:02:15 EST From: SETH ASIAW <100547.1477@compuserve.com> To: FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD Installation Message-ID: <960328220215_100547.1477_EHK115-1@CompuServe.COM>
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I have been using a Unix operating system for a few weeks now and so I am really a novice with capital N. Therefore when I read from the Internet that a Unix like system can be setup on a PC, I immediately ordered the FreeBSD. I have had it for about a week now and have been reading and re-reading the instructions and I am still scared to attempt installation again. The first time I tried I could not use my midi system attached to my PC. But fortunately when I turned the PC off/on it worked again. I personally think the documentation tries to cover too many things that it gets very confusing. I would suggest that maybe it will be a good idea to present ' Question and Answer' which guides the novice to an area of the document where the installation instructions apply specifically to their needs. For example, 1. Which PC do you have? If 386Dx, 486 or Pentium then read on. If 386Sx then you cannot use FreeBSD. 2. How much HD space left? Less than 50MBytes-Goto chpt 5 sect4.4 Less than 100Mbytes- Goto chpt. 3. Chpt 5 sect4.4 ...Partition disk using FIPS etc. Anyway my system is 386DX 40Mhz, 8Mbytes RAM 125Mbytes HD(Drive C:), 175Mbytes HD(Drive D:) both Seagate and Creative CDROM drive(Drive E:) CR-563 and Panasonic setting on the Sound Card. I have run Defrag and the space left on drive D is 90Mbytes.I have MS DoubleSpace and MagnaRam2. If I try to use FIPS from e:\tools, the message I get is: CDR101:Not ready, reading drive E Abort, Retry, Fail? Your help will be very much appreciated. My FreeBSD is by Walnut Creek CDROM. My Autoexec.bat is: SET SOUND=D:\SB16 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H1 P330 T6 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E D:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S @ECHO OFF D:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q D:\SB16\DRV\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V /M:15 LH /L:0 C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE C:\PASSWD CLS C:\DOS\doskey /insert >nul PROMPT $e[32;1m$p$g$e[0m PATH C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;D:\WP51\ PATH C:\QPW;%PATH% SET TEMP=C:\DOS LH /L:2,15872 C:\DOS\KEYB UK,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS set mouse=C:\MOUSE C:\DOS\mouse LH /L:2,13984 C:\DOS\SHARE REM C:\DOS\DOSSHELL PATH C:\QPRO;%PATH% PATH D:\TC;D:\TC\BIN;%PATH% My Config.sys is: DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /MACHINE:12 DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCAN DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE DEVICE=D:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:1 DEVICE=D:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS DEVICE=D:\SB16\DRV\SBCD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:220 REM BUFFERS=16,0 FILES=60 DOS=UMB LASTDRIVE=I FCBS=16,8 REM THIS IS VERSION V01.00 DOS=HIGH STACKS=9,256 COUNTRY=044,,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS DEVICEHIGH /L:1,37520 =C:\PROIIS\SPEED_UP.SYS DEVICEHIGH /L:2,2240 =C:\PROIIS\XANSI.SYS SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /p DEVICEHIGH /L:1,44592 =C:\DOS\DBLSPACE.SYS /MOVE BUFFERS=10,0
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