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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!usher.ravenet.com!ravenet.com!sammy From: sammy@ravenet.com (Sam Knowlton) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 Installation Problems/Questions Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 07:11:12 EST Organization: Ravenet Inc. Lines: 48 Message-ID: <sammy.12.0002279C@ravenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp31.ravenet.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1] Hello...I have a couple questions and/or problems about setting up FreeBSD 2.0 on my system. I have one 515 MB IDE hard drive, 20 megs of RAM, and a Dell 486DX2/66 system. I downloaded all the binary files and put them in a directory on my dos system. (It's only Dos at the moment). I then downloaded the CPIO and Floppy images, and rawrote them to disks. I booted with them, set up the FreeBSD slice and disklabeled..although I had to tinker with that. It was offering me two more MB on my hard disk than I had, and that was causing all sorts of errors until I did the math and left the last 2 MB alone. I honestly dont know off the top of my head what type of drive it is, but the Kernel says on bootup it's a Quantum Lightning 520A. I had resized my original one partition with FIPS, which worked fine. After finishing with the floppy and CPIO disks, it asks me to reboot the system with the kernel. After I do that, it brings up the menu like this.. F1...Dos F2...BSD And F2 does not do anything. If I do not use the boot manager, it returns: Missing operating system I know I'm doing something wrong here, but I dont know what. Which files should I get if I want to install from DOS? All I want to do is set up FreeBSD, compile a couple things, send them somewhere, and then get back to (sigh) Dos & Windoze. Should I put the binaries somewhere else? If I do exactly what it says on the INSTALL and use all the HD space available to me (I actually have a 520 MB hd, but the kernel says 515) then I get this error when it tries to 'newfs': Wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 130064-130079 (wd0 bn 704592; cn 349 tn 16 sn 0)wd0: status 0 error 0 Wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 122879(wd0 bn 704592; cn 349 tn 16 sn 0)wdo: status 0 error 1 <no_dam> And then repeats the second line until the system is rebooted, or whatever, by me. What isn't being installed that the kernel can't boot without the floppy? Any help would be greatly appreciated... --Sam, lord of all that are UNIX Illiterate ----------------------------------- Sam Knowlton Ravenet Systems/LpMOO Administrator moo.ravenet.com 1701 -----------------------------------