Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:36:53 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: Diamler - benz research center india pvt ltd <dbrci@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: support@cdrom.com Subject: Problems with FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.970220193505.14733A-100000@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in>
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Dear Sir/Madam We are trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.6 from the Walnut Creek CDROM set(This is the first time EVER that we are installing any OS). Naturally,we are having problems. We have a Pentium 100MHz 16MB RAM 1.0GB hdd.We have partitioned the hdd into two,one 400MB chunk for DOS and the other(600 MB) for FreeBSD. The FreeBSD partition we have further partitioned (for the system files) thus,using the disk label editor : / 33MB swap 44MB /usr 339MB /var 200MB(approx) We successfully installed the FreeBSD kernel (or atleast think so).Then , we tried running sysinstall to install the other packages(eg. xemacs,xxgdb etc.) which are on the CD. The steps we followed to this are : 1.choose post-configure system after FreeBSD installation 2.in the next menu,choose packages. 3.in this menu choose all available packages 4.in this menu,some ( very few) packages(such as zip,unzip,zoo) are already chosen.We tried choosing all,but the installation failed(*) for all except ones that were already chosen. *The error message asked us to look into a file called sysinstall.debug.The messages we found there were something like : DEBUG : package check on gopher 2.1.3 returns failure Questions: 1.What do we do? 2.Is there any test for us to know that the kernel is running ok? Please answer as this is very important to our further work. Thanx Daimler Benz Research Centre India
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