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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!info.uah.edu!maze.dpo.uab.edu!usenet From: suba002@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu (Greg Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help !!! Install problems with ver 2.1 Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 22:53:35 GMT Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4cphuk$mv7@maze.dpo.uab.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tty9.maze.ppp.uab.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I can't install freebsd from anything except floppy. I have tryed everything I can think of. I have an IDE Western Digital Caviar 31200, a Toshiba XM5302b 4x IDE CDrom and a Conner IDE tape drive. I have tryed installing from cdrom, tape and a dos partition, nothing works except a floppy install. I purchased the cdrom, because i thought that would be the easy way to install and reinstall if I had too. The install documentation is lacking. Is there a way to install from my cdrom? If so, how? This would be my preferred method of install. I can't even cp the files from dos to the freebsd partition once I install the base system from floppies. This is very frustrating, and I would rather use Linux than have to install from floppy with Freebsd. The error I get when I try to install from a dos partition is a bad dir panic or it can't write to the target dir. Thanks in Advance! Greg Brown Suba002@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu P.S. FYI I am running a Pentium 100mhz and the IDE controller is an PCI card and the cdrom is the Secondary port Master drive.