Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:25:02 From: SDalal@gnn.com (Sanjay Dalal) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation problems, etc. Message-ID: <199512181722.MAA16554@mail-e1b.gnn.com>
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Well, I downloaded the "bin", "compat1x", "compat20", "dict", "floppies", "info", "manpages", and "proflibs" directories and their contents (all of them), from the FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/ directory from the "ftp.cslab.vt.edu" site. I had previously downloaded the "boot.flp" image, and using "rawrite.exe" created the installation boot disk. I have a Pentium 100/16MB RAM/1.6 GB generic IDE/etc, IBM APTIVA M55 computer. I copied all the downloaded directories in C:\FREEBSD directory. Thus, I have now C:\FREEBSD with subdirectories c:\FREEBSD\BIN, C:\FREEBSD\COMPAT1X, .... C:\FREEBSD\PROFLIBS. Next, I used "FIPS" utility, (before which I had defragmented the hard disk using the defragmentation tool from within Windows 95), and allocated about 400 MB for a new partition and created a new partition. FIPS created the new partition without any errors. Now, I am trying to install FreeBSD using the installation disk. Everything goes well (most of my devices are configured correctly - including the main ones like hard disk controllers, floppy disk, cdrom, mouse, serial and parallel ports, etc.); I go for the Novice installation, and create the new partition, use "none" boot manager, Auto defaults for various sub-partitions (like /, /usr, /var, /swap), and choose "MS-DOS partition" for media. Now, I had copied over the directories using FTP from the mirror site as described before, and thus created the c:\freebsd and sub-directories; is this the same as copying them from CD-ROM as described in the installation guide. Well, when I go ahead for installation, I either get "Failed to load root distribution; correct this problem" error, or when the installation does proceed I get "Write Failure on transfer ! Wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes". The Write failure occurs while/during creating "bin", "dict", "compatxx", etc. Thus, the installation does not proceed, and I go back to square one. Well, should I be using CD-ROM instead (was trying to avoid spending money for it) ? or am I doing something wrong ? or should I have copied all the directories on floppy-diskettes and then done the installation ? or the files I have downloaded are corrupted (when I observe the screen using ALT-F2 I see that when it's reading stuff it complains of bad checksum header, corrupted data, etc. however, when I downloaded the files I never got any errors). Your inputs will be greatly appreciated. I downloaded the files using a 28.8 Modem/GNN Web Browser/running Windows 95/ftp protocol; the files were saved to the disk directly. Thanks, Sanjay Dalal
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