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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help with FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 installation
Date: 27 Sep 1994 05:27:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <363siu$or2@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>,
Andrej Gabara <gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE> wrote:
>
>Hi, I've been installing FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 on my PC, got up to the 
>"Congratulations..." message. Then I set the default installation directory
>with set_tmp_dir to /usr/distrib, and typed the command load_fd to load the
>binary (bin_tgz.??) distribution, which I copied on 11 disks.
>This is what I got:
>
># load_fd
>Read from which drive [c] ? A
>Insert floppy in drive A:, then press RETURN to copy files... 
>exec: /sbin/mount_pcfs /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy
>mount: invalid argument

Hmmmmm.  Were these freshly DOS formatted disks?  I've heard stories that
disks formatted on _other_ machines (like Mac's DOS format, or even FreeBSD's
`mformat') won't work here.  I can appreciate how frustrating this must
be after carefully preparing 11 disks, but all I can say is that I HAVE
loaded the OS this way for 1.1.5.1 and it works fine.

>BTW, I have another question: If I have 16MB real memory, and I set up a swap
>partition of 16MB also, do I get 32MB virtual memory? The instructions imply to
>me that every page is mapped onto disk, and not disk+RAM, and hence I'd only get

No, the way it currently works is that your `virtual memory' (which isn't
really the right word for swap, but we'll let it lie) is however much
swap space you have, not swap + memory.  So I generally set up 32MB of swap
if I have 16MB of memory.  Another machine I have has over 525MB of swap
for its 64MB of main memory.

					Jordan