From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 13:10:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19113 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19103 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.255]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1419; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:09:22 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000801be1349$39495480$9710cad4@trees-lounge> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:14:00 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Philip Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Nov-98 Philip wrote: > First, thanks for helping. I downloaded the boot.flp image, as said in the > installation instructions. The floppie started, I created the FreeBSD slice > and the partitions for /var, /usr, /, and /swap. After I choose to install > the boot manager there were some questions, like should I allow anonymous > ftp and so on. When I was asked to set time zone and admin pwd I said Yes, Not that bad... means root doesn't have a passwd, allows you to login with root and no passwd. Timezone would be settable later on by means of /stand/sysinstall > but install forwarded me to the next question. In the final setup I couldn't > change these setting either. Also the mouse wasn't working (tried every port > with every mouse). Install said it would reboot then, but couldn't find Normally auto mode would work... > kernel and some config file (boot config I guess, the screen scrolled down > too fast). After 'boot:' I tried to enter things like 1:wd(0,b)kernel, but > got the neverending error, or with partition other than 'b' something like > 'kernel not found', where kernel is the names I tried. Awkward... Care to provide some more info about yer HD and the partitioning/slicing? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message