Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 12:10:35 +0100 From: Jonathan Hathaway <jonh@demon.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD FTP Installation Message-ID: <3552E82B.A2A1528E@demon.net>
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Please help! I downloaded the boot.flp and fdimage.exe and booted my computer which is a: AMD K5 Processor 32Mb RAM Opti M/Board Cirrus 1MB SVGA Maxtor 850MB HDD Mitsumi x4 CD-ROM I have an extended Partition of 100Mb and was going to use 750 Mb for FreeBSD. I booted up, went through the Kernel config etc, setup up the FDISK type program to use FreeBSD and made it active and bootable i.e.' CA= 'etc. Auto configured the HDD Labels etc. Selected full download including source games and Xfree86 etc Went through the other prompts until Select nearest FTP site. Used the TERM program to start a PPP serial connection to my ISP. Started the connection started downloading the various components. Right at the end it said it had finished downloading "/usr" configuration and it just sat there doing nothing. Re-booted my machine from the HDD nothing it came up ' boot: ' etc and said it could not find the kernel?? Re-directed it to the kernel on the FDD and it went back to the startup screen. Tried rebooting and using ' kernel.GENERIC ' and kept saying could not find various files. It seems as if FreeBSD is not installed?? Does it matter that the drive I wanted to use for FreeBSD was FAT32?? Do I have to format the HDD partition before I download FreeBSD??? HELP!!! What have I done?? Please send me a reply ASAP Jon Hathaway To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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