From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 21:53:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01385 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01371 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00637; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:53:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Keith Ng cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Troubles In-Reply-To: <3238674A.1943@caravelle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Keith Ng wrote: > I seem to have trouble installing FreeBSD. I'm having trouble in trying > to configure FreeBSD on the network. FreeBSD is not detecting the > NE2000 network card for some odd reason. Is there anyway to get the OS > working? Boot with the -c option and check that device ed0 has the proper IRQ and I/O base address configured. > The other problem I am also having trouble is when I install FreeBSD bin > distribution set through floppies is that I get a writing disk error -1 > at fd0. The installation will skip the rest of the bin and install the > rest of the distribution files. Could this be a installation error or > maybe an error in the partition? bin is required. If you didn't install it then you shouldn't be able to boot. Check the archive files -- make sure they are all OK and that the 'bin.inf' file is on the first bin floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major