From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 19:09:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA15843 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meyer.eecs.ukans.edu.eecs.ukans.edu (balaji@meyer.eecs.ukans.edu [129.237.116.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA15838 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by meyer.eecs.ukans.edu.eecs.ukans.edu (8.6.10/KU-1.7a) id VAA16042; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 21:09:03 -0500 Message-ID: <199604210209.VAA16042@meyer.eecs.ukans.edu.eecs.ukans.edu> From: Balaji Srinivasan Subject: Installation problems To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 21:09:03 -0600 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there ppl, I am posting here for the first time. (I just joined the list , so forgive me if this is an old problem...) Well I cant seem to be able to install freebsd.. Here is what i went through... First I tried installing over ftp (from freebsd.org and other sites too) It started hanging when it was trying to log in to ftp.freebsd.org (and other sites) Then I tried using NFS. I downloaded the 2.1.0-RELEASE to a local network disk and tried . It gives the message hostname:not found and then hangs when it tries to mount the remote disk (I know for sure that the disk is being exported to my workstation) Finally I got the whole distribution to my dos partition and I tried installing it from there. Now it says unable to find root image. Then i used to root floppy to get the root image and then proceed. Now it says unable to find bin/bin.aa etc (it for all other subdirectories...proflibs etc etc) I even moved the distribution to the root directory on my dos partition.. Am i missing something?? My Hardware is as follows: Pentium (100 MHz Dell) SMC Ether EZ Card. Please tell me if u need more details Hoping for ur prompt reply balaji PS: Sorry once again for taking ur time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Balaji Srinivasan Voice: (913)-864-7756(W) email: balaji@eecs.ukans.edu (913)-841-3555(H) WWW : http://www.eecs.ukans.edu/~balaji