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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.texoma.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.242.23.5!nwlink.com!usenet From: cjay <cjay@nwlink.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Failed 2.1.6 Installation Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 20:20:09 -0800 Organization: is lacking Lines: 62 Message-ID: <32AA41F9.46CD@nwlink.com> Reply-To: cjay@nwlink.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip026.mu3.nwlink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Hola! I am a UNIX newbie/M$ quasi-guru. Upon downloading the /bin, /doc, and /manpages directories from the RELEASE 2.1.6 directory of ftp.freebsd.org (cdrom.com) I made the appropriate(?) directories on my "C:" drive (a 1.6 seagate). Those directories were called C:\FREEBSD\BIN, C:\FREEBSD\DOC, C:\FREEBSD\MANPAGES by me as that is what they should be called to the best of my understanding of the various installation guides available on www.freebsd.org, INSTALL.TXT in the REALEASE 2.1.6 directory, etc. I am attempting to install to my "D:" drive (a 540 Maxtor). I blew out all existing files on that drive and repartitioned it with a 1 meg primary DOS partition and nothing else. (this drive has some bad blocks at the end of it). All seemed to go well with the install floppy "boot.flp" from the same directory on ft.freebsd.org. I got my hardware devices configured and detected properly (I used the scroll lock feature upon exiting with the following error to verify that), I was able to create the file system with it's "fdisk" like utilty, etc. . Until....*drum roll*....it started to attempt the file copy from the "C:" drive (where the distribution files sit...see above). What happened was it appeared to be copying them briefly as indicated by the byte count meter or whatever in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, but the progress meter bar wasn't moving. It then felt free to inform me that the files could not be copied (it displayed a standard "your baked" type of message) saying that 1 of 1024 bytes were copied. It then asked me if I wanted to try again. It did this for all 3 of the distributions I was attempting to install (see above). Both drives are EIDE and are connected to a motherboard controller. The BIOS does support LBA. Other machine specifications: Intel P5100 32 megs of non-edo RAM Sony CDU-77e 4x CD-Rom Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM with 2 megs 3 com ports (two on the motherboard and one internal USR Sportster 33.6) Does the fact that the Maxtor has some bad blocks prevent me from installing it to that drive? or Do I have the directory structure in C:\FREEBSD wrong? or Do I absolutely have to have at least some portion of FreeBSD on my "C:" drive? or Am I just a clueless UNIX newbie who has NO BUSINESS trying to use it? <BFG> I absolutely must be able to install it and I do not have the room for it on the Seagate (which is running DOS 6.22 as well as Win95/DOS 7.0) Any help is GREATLY appreciated and I might even be able to repay the technical advice on FreeBSD with some technical advice on M$ stuff. mailto:cjay@nwlink.com http://www.nwlink.com/~cjay http://www.future-city.com