Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 12:04:39 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: jonh@demon.net (Jonathan Hathaway) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD FTP Installation Message-ID: <199805081604.MAA00630@castor.loco.net> In-Reply-To: <3552E82B.A2A1528E@demon.net> from Jonathan Hathaway at "May 8, 98 12:10:35 pm"
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Just a guess!
Try from scratch again.
Jonathan Hathaway wrote:
> 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.
OK
> 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.
OK
> 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.
I think this is where the problem started. Let the thing run until
you you're absolutely sure it's wedged.
Check the output on the bug window. (ALT+F2) It should show what's going
on. Installing over a modem is going to be sloooooow. The stuff in
/just/ /usr is going to be around 40MB or more, The whole distribution
will be many hundreds of megabytes.
100 MB =~ 1,000,000,000 bits/28,800 bps/60 sec/min /60 min/hour =
9.64 hours.
This is why people buy the CDROM. If you can't afford the $40 from
walnut creek, try cheapbytes.
> 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.
Sounds a lot like you stopped halfway through.
> 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???
No, installation should do this in the slice and partition editors.
If you continue with FTP/modem install, my strong advice is to select
"minimal installation", which will produce a pretty much full function
system that you can boot, and see if the hardware works, etc, etc.
Then you can easily add other stuff.
Dave
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