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From: paley@netcom.com (Dan Paley)
Subject: Problems getting FreeBSD1.1 up and running HELP!
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Sender: paley@netcom.com (Dan Paley)
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 16:09:50 GMT
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Ok, so I've gotten the correct floppies from FreeBSD.cdrom.com, loaded
them... followed the install stuff to the letter, but sill cannot finish
the installation.

I'm getting to the point where FreeBSD unix is trying to self boot off the 
hard disk.  But the process halts stating that there are problems with the 
rsd0e device and that I should run fsck manually.

When I try this it claims that (all) areas are protected and read only.  What
am I doing wrong?  In other words HELP!!!

here's the system I'm working with:
C & T chip set for 33 Mhz 386 w/64K cache
Adaptec 1542A Scsi card
Maxtor 350M drive (xt-8380s I think).
Tseng 3K video
Some Serial/parallel/game card (using 16550 serial devices).


I'm trying to install FreeBSD so that it can access the dos partition, so I am
using all the defaults it suggests... so what am I missing?


--dan
paley@netcom.com