From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 12:28:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.magmacom.com (mx1.magmacom.com [206.191.0.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1048E37B6A7 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sherp@ottawa.com) Received: from mail6.magma.ca (mail6 [206.191.0.248]) by mx1.magmacom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29667 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:28:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from petermainhome (x2port105.magma.ca [206.191.28.105]) by mail6.magma.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA05524 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:28:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000701c0055c$82b676a0$691cbfce@petermainhome> From: "Peter W. Sheremeta" To: Subject: Cry for Help Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:25:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HELP! As a summer project, I thought I would take an old 486DX2-66 with 16M RAM and load an operating system that wasn't controlled by Microsoft. It was meant to be a learning experience since I don't interface with Unix on a daily basis. The final objective is to see if I can get this old box running as a network server and tie in the two Windows clients I have in the house into a mini home network. Good idea until I ran into the following problem, a solution for which I would gratefully accept: The PC has an EISA motherboard with an SMC LAN card and a SCSI HD as well as a SCSI CD ROM. I created the image floppies as described in the install instructions and all seemed to be going well, including the partitioning of the HD. A quick look with SCROLL LOCK ON shows the following last four lines: cd0: Removeable CD-ROM SCSI-2 drive cd0: 3.300 MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [62118 x 2048 byte records] /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 The CD reference above is a distribution of FreeBSD 4.1 release that I pulled down off the Net and burned onto the CD. I believe I have captured all the most important (essential) sub-directories off the Net (bin, crypto, etc) All goes well until I try to install the FreeBSD distribution off CDROM when I get the following error message: Error mounting /dev/cd0c on /dist: No such file or directory(2) With my non-existent Unix skills I am now at a loss as to what to do next. Can you "kick-start" me in the right direction and I'll go ahead and either read some more or make the necessary configuration changes to get this release loaded. Appreciate any and all help you can spare. Best Regards, Peter W. Sheremeta sherp@ottawa.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message