Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:29:29 -0700 From: Tyler Schutjer <tschutj@xmission.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Still require help Message-ID: <32F1BB79.35C0@xmission.com>
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If this isn't a place for tech support questions (where you get
answered!), can you direct me to one?
I have the Walnut Creek CD (v2.1.6), and have been trying to install
this thing for about a month now, with no luck. The following is a
summary of what I've gone through; if I can get any one of these
resolved so that I can put this frigging OS on my PC, I'd be eternally
grateful:
- I attempt to install from the CD in a DOS shell from Windows, and get
a "can't allocate enough memory" error. And this is with 32MB of RAM.
- I attempt to install from the CD in DOS mode, and get a "can't switch
to protected mode" error.
- I attempt to install from a boot floppy I downloaded, and then get to
the part where it asks where I want to install from, and I indicate
from a CD, and I get an error message saying that FreeBSD cannot find
my CD-ROM. It's listed in Compeq's diagnostics utility as follows:
Embedded IDE controller, base address 0x170
8X CD-ROM, Drive Position 1
MatshitaCD-ROM CR-583
- I conclude from reading the documentation that my CD is of an
unsupported type, so I take CD 1, and xcopy all of the files on it to
C:\FREEBSD, thinking that I'll install from DOS. So, I go through the
boot floppy bit again, but tell it that I want to install from a DOS
partition, and it did it's thing, but gave me numerous error messages
that I didn't quite get. As it stands now, I take it that it needs to
copy/create the filesystems, moving the data from my DOS/Windows
partition to the BSD partition, but for some reason can't. Here is the
DiskLabel Editor's report of my hard disk:
disk wd0 partition wd0s2 free: 0 blocks (0 MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part
Mount Size Newfs
wd0s1 <none> 1890MB DOS
wd0s2a <none> 32MB *
wd0s2b <none> 42MB SWAP
wd0s2e <none> 30MB *
wd0s2f <none> 443MB *
What on earth do I need to do now? I had pressed "A" to get the default
values, but apparently that wasn't good enough...
Fer crying out loud, can anybody help???
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