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From: dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu (Dirk Kleinhesselink)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help can't install 2.1
Date: 1 Mar 96 07:29:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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HI,
I have a Pentium 100, with a 1.2MB Conner IDE drive and a 420 MB
Western Digital Caviar IDE drive, which I intend to use for FreeBSD.
These drives are on the primary IDE controller. I have a Toshiba
XM-5302 CD-ROM jumpered as Master on the secondary IDE controller. I
also have an Iomega Ditto 420 internal floppy tape drive.
I recently got the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1 CD-ROM and am trying to
install it. I tried the atapi.flp boot, and this failed to recognize
my Toshiba CD-ROM. I tried next to put (using Linux) the distributions
I wanted on to a QIC-Wide 5122 tape (what the Iomega drive uses) and
install from tape, but while FreeBSD recognizes the tape-drive as
an Iomega tape, it could not read the header. I used "tar" from linux
to copy from the CD-ROM to the floppy tape.
I managed to get the "bin" distribution installed using a dozen floppy
disks, so I have a bootable FreeBSD system. I then (from DOS) copied
more distributions to my DOS partition and then tried to install by
executing /stand/sysinstall and selecting what I wanted and for MEDIA
a DOS partition. This failed, the error was rather uninformative:
e.g. can't find manpages.aa . I really don't want to put all the stuff
on a million floppies, like in the stone age to load it on. How the hell
are you supposed to get FreeBSD on your system ? It does not seem to
anything about hardware. I also tried to FTP to myself, but that failed,
since the files were probably not in a directory the install program
expects. I should be able to install from my dos partition. But from
what heirarchy should the files be ordered ? I tried to look at the
DEBUG messages from the next console, but they were absolutely
non-informative as to what it was trying to do. How can I install
FreeBSD ? I have the DOS partition mounted, and I could look at and
copy files from it.
Thanks,
Dirk
dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu