From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 01:42:41 1997 Return-Path: <owner-questions> Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA21509 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA21504 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA02144; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 11:42:31 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to <nadav@barcode.co.il> using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma002141; Wed Jan 1 11:41:56 1997 Message-ID: <32CA310C.4C1F@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 11:40:28 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961231194734.15626A-100000@avatar.avatar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > This is my first FreeBSD install, however, I have a lot of experience > with other unix's. > > I'm trying to install 2.1.5 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM. Here is a list > of problems I'm having: > > 1. The motherboard is a AMI Merlin DP Pentium PRO 200MHZ. Only on CPU > installed. I have installed 128 meg of ram, but freebsd only seems to see > the first 64 meg of ram. It's in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ107.html#107 > > 2. When adding packages using sysinstall, it (sysinstall) complains that > it can not find a lot of the packages (including Xfree86!). I made a boot > floppy and boot off of the floppy and installed of the SCSI CD-ROM. > > 3. After installing several packages, sysinstall start complaining that > there was some error and to check to other VTTY. In doing so, I see a lot > of "proc: system full" (or somthing similar to that, I'm not near the > machine right now). This is a bug in sysinstall. Don't use it for installing packages. After you have a running system simply do (as root): pkg_add /cdrom/packages/All/the-pkg > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Kory Nadav