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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh 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 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <368afb$sf3@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <363siu$or2@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu 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