From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 20 13:57:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16197 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theta.pair.com (theta.pair.com [207.86.128.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16191 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adam.netsonic.com (gb_noc21.sparknet.net [207.250.20.21]) by theta.pair.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA08102 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:53:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Envelope-To: Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970420160159.006866e0@mail.netsonic.com> X-Sender: adam@mail.netsonic.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:02:04 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Adam L. Simpson" Subject: FreeBSD Troubles. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello: I am fairly new to the unix/fbsd world and have been trying for three days now to get FBSD installed. I have the install disks from walnut creek.. To this point I have tried everything in the books and al have failed.. I first tried via the cdrom... this failed because of the cdrom being ide i am assuming.. Do I need to go scsi with the cdrom drive? I then tried xcopy to a dos partition on the d drive and tried to install it to the c drive wd0 which also failed. I have tried the setup program that transfers the files to the drive and tried to install that way.... that too failed. I guess the questions I have are: 1. Do you have any tips for me to enable this to suceed? 2. Is it simply replacing the ide cdrom with a scsi? 3. Have you had as much grief installing fbsd on your machines? Will we alsways have this sort of hassle? my current hardware config is this: Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2 4Gb ide harddrives, 128Mb RAM, Toshiba 12x ide cdrom Thanks for your help! Humbly Stumped. Adam L. Simpson