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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!garcon.unicom.com!unicom.com!bga.com!usenet From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Install crash Date: 9 Dec 1995 07:24:43 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4abdjr$7u9@giga.bga.com> Reply-To: dhbrown@dhbrown Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Decided to try FreeBSD. Could wait for a CDROM, so downloaded distribution from FreeBSD. So I make up the install diskettes. Everything goes fine until I get to the bin.c* files. I get an error message, like a diskette error, and the rest of the bin installation is skipped. As a consequence, there is apparently no kernel put on the hard disk: message to the effect that won't be able to boot from hard disk. I've tried downloading the bin.c* files several times, putting on different diskettes, scanning the diskettes for errors, etc. Also checked to see if the hard disk was full... (it wasn't; I was putting this in a 256MB partition). Anybody know what the problem is? (And why isn't there some way to avoid having to load in all 13 diskettes of the bin series when only the last 3 are causing the problem?) I did bring up the fixit diskette and mounted the new FreeBSD partition, checking out a few of the commands. I just don't know where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hadn't planned on investing in the CDROM unless it solved a network problem I'm having with Linux. At this point I'm about ready to go back to Linux and work on the network problem. -- Dave Brown Austin, TX