Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 09:20:53 +0100 From: David Dooley <dpd@raffles-it.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, scott@bravara.com, jlimpert@acm.org, grog@FreeBSD.ORG, dooleyr@missouri.edu, squirk@home.com, vadim@mikhailov.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM NetFinity hanging during install probe Message-ID: <200109020820.f828Kr302428@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com> In-Reply-To: Message from David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:37:54 PDT." <200108292337.f7TNbsq42263@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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--==_Exmh_-895381171P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks to all those who answered my plea for help. In the end I was able to install the box buy installing a DOS partition and coping the most of the contents of the CD to a 'c:\freebsd' directory. I then was able to boot from the floppies and do the rest of the install form the DOS partition. There appears to be a problem with the CD under FreeBSD as it read fine under DOS. After much mucking about trying to get a src tree to compile and install everything is now at 4-RC. One thing that came out of this was, I didn't copy the packages directory from the cd and so consequently when I came to install linux compatability it failed. I have in the past taken the option to install linux compatability from the sysinstall process, but this time I did it from the ports tree and it installed a whole slew of extra ports, why is that? From sysinstall you get one package from the ports tree you get 10 or more, surely if you install the linux compat from the sysinstall you should get all the other stuff as well. I might be missing the point, I often do. Thanks again for all your help. David --==_Exmh_-895381171P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 iD8DBQE7kevliTCzTVFwd6wRAhq1AJ4goZMy8S590q9Yr75lRWaW/MM6iACgmCOt mrtJ58qyPtqEWV50Hy5n62o= =S8kI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-895381171P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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