From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jan 20 18:20:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA20505 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.ns.dx.net.ns.dx.net (dragon.illusions.com [206.162.89.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA20496 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by dragon.ns.dx.net.ns.dx.net (IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.14/1.0) id AA0482; Mon, 20 Jan 97 19:18:10 -0700 Message-Id: <9701210218.AA0482@dragon.ns.dx.net.ns.dx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 97 19:06:44 +0800 From: dragon@illusions.com To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: BIG BUG installing to notebook X-Mailer: Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Content-Id: <474_127_1_853805206> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Okay boys, here's the problem. Never in my life have I been so frustrated trying to install and OS on any machine. OS/2 no problem, Windows great, Solaris easy, FreeBSD WHAT A FRIGGIN JOKE!!! Your release 2.1.5 states and I quote from your own file install.txt from the root of the CD-ROM "After you've formatted the floppies for DOS or UFS, you'll need to copy the files onto them. The distribution files are split into chunks conveniently sized so that 5 of them will fit on a conventional 1.44MB floppy. Go through all your floppies, packing as many files as will fit on each one, until you've got all the distributions you want packed up in this fashion. Each distribution should go into its own subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.: a:\bin\bin.aa, a:\bin\bin.ab, ... Once you come to the Media screen of the install, select "Floppy" and you'll be prompted for the rest." NOT. Oh it prompts alright, "unable to extract bin", what a good message that is. I have also tried the following: A:\dists\bin A:\freebsd\bin A:\ A:\bin all to no good purpose. At least Linux had a "make floppy" command, and it will install on the same notebook that I am trying to get yours onto. Now, I am a full time UNIX administrator working on Sun SPARC and x86 Solaris. I have been doing this for a long time, and I have installed UNIX on systems that it was not even suppose to run on, and yet I have never had these kinds of problems. Either the documentation is wrong, or the install program does not like floppies, and since that is all I have on this notebook, that's all I can use. The notebook is a Compaq LTE Lite 4/25 with a 130 MB hard drive and 12MB of ram. No it is not color and no I will not be installing any graphics programs on it. This is a development and e-mail box. I wanted to use FreeBSD because of the similarity to Solaris in many respects, however, that does not seem possible now. If you have a solution to this problem, I would love to hear it, and even give it a try. Who knows, there might even be a page missing from my install.txt file. All I know is, IT DON'T WORK LIKE IT SAYS IT WILL!!! Your help is appreciated. ______________________________________________________ Karl E. Taylor UNIX Systems Administrator Desert Dragon SOHO Solutions dragon@illusions.com ______________________________________________________ "If it does not say UNIX on it,,, then it is a toy!!!"