Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 14:25:23 -0800 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The Instructions and my inabilty to get BSD installed when using them Message-ID: <32A4A8D3.25D@u.washington.edu>
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I found the installation from a dos partition to be the most confusing. What seems to me to be a simple install is quite confounding. I'm wondering if the file 'bin.mtree' could be the cause of my trouble. DOS abbreviates the 'mtree' suffix to 'mtr'. I am also wondering if perhaps your instructions for preparing to install from a DOS partition "handbook15.html" which discuss copying files from cdrom to a directory named 'c:\freebsd' do not apply to me. I have copied the bin.a* components of '/2.1.6-release/bin/' to the directories 'c:\freebsd\', 'c:\freebsd\bin\', and 'c:\bin\'. I tried all these possible source paths to see if perhaps I misunderstood the instructions. Depending on the source path I chose I recieved error messages "unable to find distribution - bin" or "write error". Is it necessary for me to move these components to a unix box and concatenate them there and then ftp them to 'c:\freebsd\'? I think that having read the instructions several times and following a fairly intuitive course of actions that I should have been able to pull this off. Unfortunatley my UNIX experience is not administrative in nature. But, as an experienced end-user I have never remained stumped by anything I've tried to do. This ones got me beat. I was unable to use the ftp media settings because I was unable to "resolve host ftp.freebsd.org". I then nslookuped ftp.freebsd.org and used the IP address and was unable to connect. I have a NE2000 compatible ether card. Specifically it is the LinkSYS Ether16 with IRQ=10 and IO=300h. I am connected to the Univesity of Washington and have never had any trouble configuring networking until now. BSDLess in Seattle, Jason Wells
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