Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 19:55:33 -0500 From: SMoo <smoo@jump.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <322F7684.5B26@jump.net>
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Hello again I seem to be running into a few problems installing FreeBSD onto my system I FTP'd all the files tht the documentation said were necessary, and proceed with the installation. I beet from the boot disk i made with rawrite just fine (so far so good) I choose a novice install, because i'm truly a novice at the ionstallation of unix, not at the operation. I setup my hard drive with the following: wd0s1 /bogus 2047MB DOS wd0s2a / 332MB UFS Y wd0s2b <none> 6MB SWAP I set the boot manager and make the FreeBSD partition bootable, and choose continue. then it asks for the installation medium and i tell it to install from a dos partition (namely /bogus) in c:\freebsd. it then gives a few errors saying "/usr file system not found" and "error decompressing kernel" , which leads to the errors saying "cannot extract /bin /etc" etc. I then referred back to the installation help html file, which gave mention to copy e:\dists c:\freebsd (assuming you're installing from cd) So i check on the ftp site (ftp3.freebsd.org) and there is no /dists anywhere... Can you tell me what I'm doing incorrectly? Additional info: the cpu is an amd 5x86 133 hd is western digital caviar 2.56 gig ide 32 mb ram 1.44 and 1.2 floppies 8x creative (sony) cdrom vlb cirrus logic gd5426 1mb video adapter hayes optima 336b modem on com3 addtron pnp 100 mip 10base-t nic iomega ditto 800 mb ext serial tape drive linksys 5 port uplink hub 256k burst pipeline cache there is a summit 250 mb tape drive internal, but its completely disconnected (too much playing, not enough working :) ) 330 watt power supply the monitor is a panasonic panasynch 1280x1024 monitor .26 pitch i'm pretty familiar with unix as i work at the aix helpdesk at ibm austin texas, so "technobabble" doesnt bother me :) any help you can provide is most appreciated Steve Goggin
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