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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Subject: [FreeBSD] Installation cannot work? Message-ID: <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 06:47:17 GMT Lines: 26 Someone please publish the trick that is needed to install FreeBSD :-( I've got past the cpio-floppy install, and can boot off the hard disk (SCSI). The probing does not recognise my ethernet card (WD8003.something that works fine with 386bsd), and complains about a device "ed0" whatever that might be. Hence I cannot install via the ethernet as I cannot ifconfig my ethernet card. In fact I wish to install via floppy - it is a published option and is the only option open to folk who are out in the sticks in Africa so it needs to work and I need to know how it is done. I cannot even get as far as the problem of the DOS filenames not being able to be represented as bin.tar.gz.aa, as the load_fd process cannot find the mread program. (By-the-by, the message about interrupting load_fd with ^C is wrong, as this process is not interruptable by any means except a hard reboot). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, surely I cannot be the only person with such problems? Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 318279/80 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd fx +27 461 25049 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa