Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:01:28 -0800 (PST) From: Rajen Bose <rbose@uclink.berkeley.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FrrrBSD 2.0 Installation over FTP Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9502101546.A9986-0100000@uclink.berkeley.edu>
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To Whom This May Concern: I'm a web and gopher administrator for Residential Computing at UC Berkeley. I was originally running the WWW server on a Windows NT 3.1 machine, but I didn't like the EMWAC server (the only one made for NT), so I decided to switch to a UN*X operating system that could run NCSA's httpd. I chose FreeBSD since I heard that it was a stable and well supported OS. So, for the past three weeks, I've tried to install FreeBSD on my IBM - a 25MHz 486sx with 24MB of memory, a 3COM 3c509 TP ethernet card set to irq 10 and 0x300, and an IDE CD-ROM drive. Since I can't install via CD-ROM (since IDE CD-ROMs are not supported), I decided to try to install using FTP. I've tried to install the 2.0 release, the jan 25 (?) snapshot, the 2/2 snapshot, and the 2/10 snapshot. None of them work. I was finally able to create proper boot and cpio disks and format the drives, but I can't FTP the binaries from ftp.freebsd.org. Frankly, after 3 weeks of trying to install it, I'm sick of FreeBSD. I've e-mailed questions@freebsd, pst@freebsd, and paul@freebsd, and nobody knew what to do. I'm almost willing to fly somebody to Berkeley so I can actually witness this installation (almost). Paul T. did mention that your 3COM drivers were the flakeiest of all your ethernet drivers. Will it be fixed anytime soon, or should I just switch to another OS? Your advice would be helpful. Raj
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