From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 13 12:35:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B7137B8EC for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:64032 "HELO ertr1013.student.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:35:11 +0200 Received: (qmail 2575 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Aug 2000 19:35:20 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:35:20 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Peter W. Sheremeta" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cry for Help Message-ID: <20000813213519.A2555@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: "Peter W. Sheremeta" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <000701c0055c$82b676a0$691cbfce@petermainhome> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c0055c$82b676a0$691cbfce@petermainhome>; from sherp@ottawa.com on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:25:56PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:25:56PM -0400, Peter W. Sheremeta wrote: > 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) This is probably where you went wrong. If you want to burn your own CD you should get the iso-image of 4.1-RELEASE and burn that. Trying to make it work by getting individual files/directories is non-trivial to say the least. ( ftp://ftp.frebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.1-install.iso ) > > 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 -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message