From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 23:11:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09958 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 23:11:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mt.arias.net (root@mt.arias.net [204.212.254.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09951 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 23:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnh@mt.arias.net) Received: from mt.arias.net (pm2e-244.arias.net [204.212.254.244]) by mt.arias.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA27854 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 14:19:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3557E8E7.9201A67D@mt.arias.net> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 23:15:03 -0700 From: "John H." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Installation Problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have tried to install FreeBSD using almost every process listed in the documentation and have yet to successfully run it. Perhaps you could point me in the right direction. Here is the situation: - I downloaded the entire directory structure of FreeBSD from the ftp4.FreeBSD.org. - I created the boot disk and got through the configuring part, selected novice from the main menu. - I'm installing FreeBSD to my secondary hard drive (wd1). In the Disklabel Editor, I'm using the Auto Defaults for all. - I selected all the installation sets. Up to this point there is no problem... -CDROM: I burned a CD with the entire FreeBSD directory structure. (\FreeBSD\2.2.6-RELEASE). While booting, FreeBSD recognized my CDROM, but failed to install from the CDROM and I get an error message stating that the CD in the drive is either not a FreeBSD CD or is an older one and if I was sure if I wanted to use it. After hitting "Yes" it comes up with the error that it couldn't extract the distributions. -FTP: I copied FreeBSD to a Linux directory on my other computer to where it would be available for FTP installation, and that actually worked to a point. It came up with an error about 15 minutes into the installation that it couldn't install the SCONTRIB distribution and if I wanted to try again (to which I had no luck). -DOS: Tried installing it from a DOS partition, but it came up with the error "Couldn't extract the distributions..." Perhaps it's looking for it in a different directory? -NFS: Same. My system configurations (I got the same errors on both) --Packard Bell 120MHz (overdrive from Intel) with 16MB of RAM, Western Digital HD (2.5Gb) Seagate HD (520 MB), Mitsumi 8X CDROM, Yamaha sound card and a Linksys 10BaseT Ethernet card. -- Intel Pentium 166MMX with 48MB of RAM, Western Digital HD (4.5Gb), Maxtor HD (520MB), Creative Labs 8X CDROM, Sound Blaster 64 AWE Sound Card, and also a Linksys 10BaseT Ethernet card. ** Both systems run Windows 95 OSR 1, and Linux 2.0.33. Well, I hope this isn't overkill in information, but better more info than not enough. I realize I could save myself a lot of hassle if I bought the CDROM from Walnut Creek, but for now I think I'll stick with the true meaning of FreeBSD. Thank you for your time. Regards, John Hinsberger johnh@mt.arias.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message