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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:20:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net>
To: XavierAlbornoz <rubensfr@embratel.net.br>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Proc.
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Howdy,
I'm new at this too, but when I tried the view install from the cdrom it=20
crashed the system and then I tried the floppy install - don't remember=20
the error messages but it didn't work either. The one thing that stopped=20
the problem for me was DISABLE the OS memory manager and cacheing. As=20
soon as I killed the DOS emm386 (and DOS complained bitterly) the view=20
command worked and the installation took about 35 minutes (and I loaded=20
my system up). I have heard that disabling your machines shadow ram does=20
something to help (I just can't remember what). Forgive me if this=20
doesn't help but I'm stumbling along also.

Keith Leonard
keithl@gil.net
Live free or die!

On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, XavierAlbornoz wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> I have tried to install the FreeBSD using the View tool. The procedure I
> have followed is:
> 1. Bootting from a floppy disk
> 2. Selecting the Novice Instalation Guide=20
> 3. Disposing the entire disk (201 Mbytes)
> 4. Selecting my supported CDROM media type (Mitsumi)
>=20
> The system has reported me the following message during the copy of bin:
>=20
> - Write failure on transfer! Wrote -1 bytes of 10240=20
>=20
> Obs.: This error is reported in other (not at all) steps as well. If I tr=
y
> to boot=20
> after tthe installation I receive the message: "Can=B4t find kernel image=
 to link
> on the root file system..."=20
>=20
> I would like to know what is the probable error source (OS,HD,CDROM)?
> It takes me about 12 hours to get the system installed. Is it normal? =20
>=20
> Thanks in advance
>=20
>=20
> Rubens Freire Rosa
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20