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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!newshub.nosc.mil!huck From: huck@nosc.mil (Craig Huckabee) Subject: I've got the BSD install blues...HELP! Message-ID: <1994Oct6.041750.9428@nosc.mil> Sender: news@nosc.mil (Network News) Organization: /etc/organization Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 04:17:50 GMT Lines: 60 Hello all, I've been trying to install FreeBSD 1.1.5 on my system for a week now with no luck. I've downloaded every FAQ I could find and now I'm at my wits end. The system: 486DX2/66Mhz AST Bravo 16MB RAM, had 32MB but install fails, see problem #2 1 Seagate SCSI-II 1.0 Gb Drive 1 Maxtor SCSI-II 525Mb Drive Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller I've partitioned the Seagate into 2 500Mb drives, 500 for DOS 5.0, 500 for FreeBSD. Install of basic system goes OK. I go to install the binaries. I get the 'panic' on reboot after installing them. I later reinstall and check the bindist before I install, and it finds a bad header. I can't find any good binaries on the net (I've tried gatekeeper, tsx-11, archie.au), because this happens with each try. So problem 1 is: Can anyone tell me how to get a good distribution I can use, or is this 'panic' problem something else? Problem 2: Install actually works with only 16Mb installed. I thought 1.1.5 was supposed to be ok with 32Mb of RAM and an Adaptec? Did I miss something? Problem 3: If anyone can help me get up and running, I'd like to use multicast. Has anyone else done this that would like to give me some lessons in installing it? Problem 4: BSD gripes about no label on the Maxtor. I thought I saw how to label in a FAQ but now I can't find it. Anyone know where that info is? Can a non-BSD drive have a label? Can I install a 3rd OS and mount it as well? (Such as NeXTStep, OS/2, etc) I hope someone can help. I chose BSD over Linux because of the multicast ability, I really would like to see it run. Thanks in Advance, Craig /********************************************/ Craig Huckabee NISE East Charleston, SC Currently working out of Clemson University, Clemson, SC huck@nosc.mil <-- faster dhuckab@hubcap.clemson.edu /********************************************/ -- My whole describes a thing both safe and secure behead me and I become a place of meeting behead me again and I become the partner of ready Restore me and I become the domain of beasts