From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 2 1:29:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raffles-it.com (raffles.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5303B37B403; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 01:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arrow.lan.raffles-it.com (arrow.lan.raffles-it.com [192.168.100.51]) by raffles-it.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f828Kro10080; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:20:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dpd@raffles-it.com) Received: from arrow.lan.raffles-it.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arrow.lan.raffles-it.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f828Kr302428; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:20:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dpd@lan.raffles-it.com) Message-Id: <200109020820.f828Kr302428@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: David Wolfskill , 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 In-Reply-To: Message from David Wolfskill of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:37:54 PDT." <200108292337.f7TNbsq42263@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-895381171P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 09:20:53 +0100 From: David Dooley Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_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