Date: Wed, 31 May 95 16:32:30 CDT From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) To: f445510@fsd.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd installation Message-ID: <9505312132.AA29894@merak.med.ge.com>
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>Hi Derek!
>I read your e-mail about large IDE hard drive.
>I have 1.2 G Maxtor. I tried to install FreeBSD (cd-rom from Walnut creek)
>few months ago but could not succeed. So I retured it. How and Where do I get
>4/12 SNAP? How difficult it is to install?
>Thanks,
>vinit patel
>vpatel@fsd.com
Vinit,
The installation is not bad, but you need the complete bindist
set on a system somewhere. The install procedure allows the use of
NFS, UFS, CDROM, or DOS partition.
The distribution can be gotten from ftp.cdrom.com. At this point in time
you could grab 2.0.5A release which is better. I haven't yet.
In a nut shell:
1) Get the bindist, boot.flp cpio.flop, rawrite code from cdrom.com.
Make sure the bindist is is on the dos partition or on a NFS
mountable disk somewhere on your network.
2) Make the floppies with the rawrite.exe program. You will
make 2 floppies. One for booting, and the other for getting the
basics on the disk. USE NEW/KNOWN GOOD DISKS.
More problems booting have been caused by bad media. :)
3) Boot the machine with boot floppy. Select install from menu.
4) FDISK the 1.2 G drive. I assume it will be drive 0 aka /dev/wd0 aka
DOS C: I would put 2 partitions. 100M or so for DOS and the
rest for FreeBSD. Put the dos one first. Don't use any logical
block addressing in you BIOS. I've had problems there.
5) DISKLABEL the disk. Follow the readme files for sizes for each slice.
When I'm done editing and asigning my screen looks something like this:
a 20 M newfs /
b 64 M swap
c freebsd size
d whole disk
e 20 M newfs /var
f 100M newfs /home
g 1000M newfs /usr (or what ever is left)
h ??? mount /dos_c (imported from dos partition)
This is all from my failing :) memory so some details may be off but you
will see what I mean.
6) At this point select proceed.It will format and copy the minimal info to the
BSD partition on the disk. Follow the directions on the screen
to install the cpio disk. The system will install the minimal set and
reboot off the harddisk. Remember to pull the cpio floppy when it
tells you.
7) Next time when the system comes up it will ask where to find the rest
of the install set. Here you need to select the form of media you
downloaded the bindist set to. I generally download it to a UFS from
a previous BSD install. My guess is you will have it on a DOS file
system. I've never done it that way but I would be surprised if
it didn't work. I have installed bindist off a NFS and UFS setup. Both
worked like a charm. The 2.0 CD-ROM didn't go as smoothly.
I've CC a copy of this back to the questions@freebsd.org group in
case I've missed anything. I'm still a fairly new user to this
software. In general I've been very impressed with it.
Derek Laufenberg
laufen@sol.med.ge.com
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