Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:45:35 -0000 From: "Jamie Burns" <mail@activetools.freeserve.co.uk> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation Problems Message-ID: <000201be1a57$d02c6580$2206883e@1>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello.. I am trying to install FreeBSD Release 3.0 from my C: drive. I have copied Release 3.0 into a directory called 'C:\FreeBSD' and it has the bin, catpages, compat1 etc. inside of it and the installation files inside the bin, catpages etc.. I have made a boot floppy, booted, configured the kernel with my devices, made a partition for FreeBSD (some is above the 1024 cylynder limit) and let it have the automatic label sizes and mount partitions. I have assigned my 'C:' drive to '/dos_c'. I selected my installation packages and chose my media as a DOS partition and correctly pointed it toward my 'C:' drive. I made sure everything was commited and started the install. It then complains that it cannot find/install 'bin, catpages' etc. (all of them). They *ARE* on my 'C:' drive, and I did give it the right drive. On console 2, it has a few things, including the mounting of the 'C:' drive under '/dist'. Interestingly it complains that it cannot find cp and ls a couple of times. What is going wrong? I installed R2 last year fine on a different PC. I cannot think of what is wrong. Any suggestions, Jamie Burns. [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hello..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I am trying to install FreeBSD Release 3.0 from my C: drive. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I have copied Release 3.0 into a directory called 'C:\FreeBSD' and it has the bin, catpages, compat1 etc. inside of it and the installation files inside the bin, catpages etc..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I have made a boot floppy, booted, configured the kernel with my devices, made a partition for FreeBSD (some is above the 1024 cylynder limit) and let it have the automatic label sizes and mount partitions. I have assigned my 'C:' drive to '/dos_c'.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I selected my installation packages and chose my media as a DOS partition and correctly pointed it toward my 'C:' drive. I made sure everything was commited and started the install. It then complains that it cannot find/install 'bin, catpages' etc. (all of them). They *ARE* on my 'C:' drive, and I did give it the right drive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>On console 2, it has a few things, including the mounting of the 'C:' drive under '/dist'. Interestingly it complains that it cannot find cp and ls a couple of times.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>What is going wrong? I installed R2 last year fine on a different PC. I cannot think of what is wrong.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Any suggestions,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Jamie Burns.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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