From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 2:34:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel7.hp.com (atlrel7.hp.com [192.151.27.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBC737B40B for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from srrao@india.hp.com) Received: from redsea.india.hp.com (redsea.india.hp.com [15.76.97.3]) by atlrel7.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752251F6AC for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from india.hp.com (ebnt9772.india.hp.com [15.76.97.72]) by redsea.india.hp.com with ESMTP (8.7.1/8.7.3 SMKit7.02) id OAA22187 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:43:58 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <3B4AC85D.F41C6419@india.hp.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:48:21 +0530 From: Srinivasa Rao X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Free Bsd installation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, While trying to install freeBsd, I am getting following errors: "Unable to transfer the bin distribution from fd0, do you want to try to retrieve it again" Steps I followed are: 1 kern.flp 2 mfsroot.flp 3 kernel configmenu: visual mode 4 quit and save 5 /stand/sysinstall Main menu: standard 6 FDISK partition editor: A(Use Entire Disk) + Q(quit and save) 7 Install boot manager for drive ad0: standard 8 Free Bsd disklabel editor: A(uto defauly\s) + Q(finish) 9 Choose Distributions: Esc, esc, esc 10 choose installation media: Floppy at this point I could see some out put like, doing newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/ad0* 11 Please insert floppy in floppy drive unit a: floppy having first 5 binaries, a:\bin\bin* At this point I am getting above error. I am using "hp brio ba210" H/W, which supports following features: Microtower model, Intel Celeron™, 533MHz, 64MB 128KB, 4.3GB, 40X IDE, integrated 8MB, 56K V90 PCI ROCKWELL, WIN98 Can any one suggest the installation process, looking for your help. Thanks & Regards -Srini To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message