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From: scilailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Newbie needs Help!
Date: 2 Jun 1996 16:39:33 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
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I am a total newbie to FreeBSD. I manage to grab hold of a CD ROM of the
lastest version of FreeBSD and tried installing from there...now the
begin of the PROBLEMS...firstly, i tried the boot.flp and it didn't
recognise my IDE CD ROM Drive then I tried the atapi.flp boot disk, still
no luck, finally, i decided to give up on installing from the CD ROM
drive, so i partition my 1.7GB hdd into 2 partition, one DOS and one
intended for FreeBSD...So i copy the whole DISTS directory to the DOS
partition as instructed by the FreeBSD handbook and also the FLOPPIES
directory into C:\FREEBSD (the 1st partition of my hdd), so happily i
started booting the system using the boot.flp that i created. I go thru
the Novice installation process and when finallly when the system is
suppose to get the root.flp/bin.* files, it tells me having some problem
with the ROOT disk, and ask me to correct it before proceeding. So i
thought maybe i place the files in the wrong directory in the DOS
partition, and i tried all the possible combination available, but it
seem that the same error still occur *sigh*.
My last resort is to install from floppies...I did manage the get the
system up and going with FreeBSD from floppies...but i can't mount the
DOS partition or I can mount the DOS partition, but after accessing files
in the DOS partition, a kernel panic and the whole system hang :(
So can anyone enlighten me on what did i do wrong for all the above
procedure?
TIA
Lai
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