From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 01:26:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA12052 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 01:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.xmission.com (root@mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA12047 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 01:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (slc36.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.36]) by mail.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) with SMTP id CAA25981 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 02:26:29 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <32F1BB79.35C0@xmission.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:29:29 -0700 From: Tyler Schutjer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Still require help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If this isn't a place for tech support questions (where you get answered!), can you direct me to one? I have the Walnut Creek CD (v2.1.6), and have been trying to install this thing for about a month now, with no luck. The following is a summary of what I've gone through; if I can get any one of these resolved so that I can put this frigging OS on my PC, I'd be eternally grateful: - I attempt to install from the CD in a DOS shell from Windows, and get a "can't allocate enough memory" error. And this is with 32MB of RAM. - I attempt to install from the CD in DOS mode, and get a "can't switch to protected mode" error. - I attempt to install from a boot floppy I downloaded, and then get to the part where it asks where I want to install from, and I indicate from a CD, and I get an error message saying that FreeBSD cannot find my CD-ROM. It's listed in Compeq's diagnostics utility as follows: Embedded IDE controller, base address 0x170 8X CD-ROM, Drive Position 1 MatshitaCD-ROM CR-583 - I conclude from reading the documentation that my CD is of an unsupported type, so I take CD 1, and xcopy all of the files on it to C:\FREEBSD, thinking that I'll install from DOS. So, I go through the boot floppy bit again, but tell it that I want to install from a DOS partition, and it did it's thing, but gave me numerous error messages that I didn't quite get. As it stands now, I take it that it needs to copy/create the filesystems, moving the data from my DOS/Windows partition to the BSD partition, but for some reason can't. Here is the DiskLabel Editor's report of my hard disk: disk wd0 partition wd0s2 free: 0 blocks (0 MB) Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs wd0s1 1890MB DOS wd0s2a 32MB * wd0s2b 42MB SWAP wd0s2e 30MB * wd0s2f 443MB * What on earth do I need to do now? I had pressed "A" to get the default values, but apparently that wasn't good enough... Fer crying out loud, can anybody help???