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From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R installation problem
Message-ID: <D1L8sH.4G5@space.physics.uiowa.edu>
Organization: The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 19:57:52 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: In article <D1HrAD.3tu@space.physics.uiowa.edu>,
: Larry Granroth <ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu> wrote:
: >After trying every combination of boot floppy images, swapping floppy
: >drives, trying different diskettes, pulling extra boards out, swapping
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-(
: >different hard drives in to install on, etc., my attempt at installing
: >FreeBSD 2.0R on my pc keeps failing at the same point. (The system was
: >formerly running NetBSD 0.9 and NetBSD 1.0 also installs without any
: >trouble.)
: Have you tried new floppy media? :-)
: Jordan
The floppies fsck fine under NetBSD 1.0.
The mother board and floppy controller are about the only constant factors.
(And, of course there's me: I could be doing something stupid.)
Are there any "manual" installation instructions?
Assuming I have to stick with NetBSD 1.0, is there a nice collection of
ready-to-fly applications similar to FreeBSD's package directory?
(I don't mind doing my own porting and compiling, etc, but it saves
loads of time to have these common applications packaged by someone else.)
larry-granroth@uiowa.edu