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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.isi.edu!gremlin!lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com!dec From: dec@lazarus.nrtc.northrop.com (Dwight E. Cass) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Installation cannot work? Message-ID: <CD24pu.EHn@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Sender: news@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com (Usenet News Manager) Organization: Northrop Research & Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA References: <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 22:49:05 GMT Lines: 42 In article <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za> ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) writes: >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. Yes - I also found that the mread program is missing. But, fortunately, the kernel is built with PCFS - so the fix is: cd /usr/distrib # or whatever you are using as # your temporary directory while /bin/echo -n "Please insert next floppy, or type ^C: " do read a mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0a /mnt cp /mnt/* . umount /mnt done This loop mounts each floppy in PCFS format, copies things to the distribution directory and unmounts... Once this is done, you can use extract as documented. Hope this helps, /dec Dwight E. Cass dec@nrtc.northrop.com | You are in a Automation Sciences Laboratory, Northrop Corporation | twisty maze of One Research Park, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274 | Sendmail rules, (310) 544-5393 | all obscure...