From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 07:48:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29448 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:48:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc.seflin.org (d055633c@dc.seflin.org [199.227.192.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA29439 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d055633c@dc.seflin.org) Received: (from d055633c@localhost) by dc.seflin.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA18633; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:48:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:48:48 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson Subject: Re: Basic but unrelated questions To: "Scott M. DePalma" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980325162941.006c5358@sirus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK. lpt1: under dos/winblows=lpt0: under freebsd lpt2: under dos = lpt1: under freebsd. type -cv at the boot: prompt, and "visual" at the config> prompt, and remove lpt1: (lpt2: dos). It's not really important until you print something, and you may need to do this each time you boot, until you recomple your own kernel. You need to copy the manpages.* files to a floppy under the subdirectory "manpages" and you NEED manpages.inf on the first disk. Try to get them in order on the disk too.. Robert Jackson d055633c@dc.seflin.org On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Scott M. DePalma wrote: > Hello. I'm dipping my toe in fbsd. I'm very green, I've read the handbook, > read the first three chapters of the new "newbies" book online, and have > installed only the bin files on my old 386, using floppies. I'm using a 200 > MB drive at present, and I know it's too small but I'm trying to learn > something before I go out and get another drive. So far there are two > things I haven't solved by experimenting. > > 1. I'm trying to add the manpages distribution. I go through the post-install > config windows but when I get to the final step I get the message "Couldn't > extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not > available > on the installation media you chose." I downloaded the files to three > floppies, > each to a directory a:\manpages. > > 2. When the system is probing my equipment during boot, it tells me that I > have an lpt0 and an lpt1 at the same address and that there is an I/O conflict > between them at IRQ 7. IRQ 7 is of course correct for lpt1, but what is lpt0? > I seem to recall that during installation the program associated lpt0 with > IRQ 7, and refused to let me correct it. > > I would appreciate any suggestions as to how to install manpages and how to > correct the I/O conflict. I promise that I won't do this once a week although > I'm tempted. TIA > > Scott > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message