Date: Fri, 16 Jan 98 18:06:30 -0500 From: jackson@msrce.howard.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: easy install? I think not! Message-ID: <9801162306.AA17048@negril.msrce.howard.edu>
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>subscribe freebsd-questions Sorry for that. Problem description: I've been trying to install freebsd 2.2.5 on a packard bell 70Mhz pentium from the Walnut Creek CDROM for the past few days with no luck. This computer belongs to a friend who needs unix for class work, but she doesn't know anything about the hardware. As far as I can tell it has 1 ide hard drive, 1 ide cd drive a pci video card and a modem. It boots fine, from a floppy, (after I disable all the devices with irq conflicts). I can then repartition the hard disk set up the freebsd partitions and then select the install files (X-Developer) and the distribution media CDROM. It then tells me this is my last chance to abort. After an ok, the installer makes all the file systems, puts booteasy on the MBR and then stops with an error saying that an emergency shell has been started on vty4. Alt-f4 takes me to a shell with a '#' prompt, which I assume is run from the flopy since very few commands work. Alt-f2, I think, takes me to a log window which doesn't appear to have any error messages. I then tried to copy the install files to the hard drive. Running view I started the necessary program and configured it to copy the necessary files. Even that gave me an error, something like 'x32bin.tgz not found'. I then deselected xf86, and the files were copied to the hard drive. Trying the installer again, using the hard disk for the install media this time, gave the same results as noted above. I also noticed that the installer goes into an infinite loop after an error from the first screen to the first partition screen and back to the first screen. Questions: Is this a hardware problem? Is there another way to install freebsd without using the installer? Is this a problem with the Walnut Creek CD? What other distributions of freebsd are out there? Has the freebsd web site been down for the past few days? Thanks for any help, suggestions. Aaron Jackson jackson@msrce.howard.edu
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