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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>
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Subject: Re: Installation woes
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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