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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie needs Help! Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 21:12:48 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 48 Message-ID: <31B26640.3BD0@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4osg45$318@nuscc.nus.sg> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win16; I) Lai L F wrote: > > 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 > Did you copy the distribution files into the appropriate subdirectories under C:\FREEBSD ??? For example: C:\FREEBSD\BIN for all bin files C:\FREEBSD\MAN for the man pages C:\FREEBSD\FLOPPIES for the floppy image files etc. Be sure you keep the subdirectories identified as they were on your ftp site, since that's where the install routine will look for them. Hope this helps! Ken