Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:30:58 -0500 From: "Scott M. DePalma" <sdepalma@sirus.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Basic but unrelated questions Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980325162941.006c5358@sirus.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello. I'm dipping my toe in fbsd. I'm very green, I've read the handbook, read the first three chapters of the new "newbies" book online, and have installed only the bin files on my old 386, using floppies. I'm using a 200 MB drive at present, and I know it's too small but I'm trying to learn something before I go out and get another drive. So far there are two things I haven't solved by experimenting. 1. I'm trying to add the manpages distribution. I go through the post-install config windows but when I get to the final step I get the message "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you chose." I downloaded the files to three floppies, each to a directory a:\manpages. 2. When the system is probing my equipment during boot, it tells me that I have an lpt0 and an lpt1 at the same address and that there is an I/O conflict between them at IRQ 7. IRQ 7 is of course correct for lpt1, but what is lpt0? I seem to recall that during installation the program associated lpt0 with IRQ 7, and refused to let me correct it. I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to install manpages and how to correct the I/O conflict. I promise that I won't do this once a week although I'm tempted. TIA Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.32.19980325162941.006c5358>