Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:15:19 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: jackson@msrce.howard.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easy install? I think not! Message-ID: <19980117001519.13000.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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There are no other distributions of FreeBSD that I know of, however this distribution is available from other sources. Like for instance Unix Unleashed System Administration has a binary only (read no sources) version of this distribution. Yes the site has been down. My Questions :-) 1. You mention nothing about how you've partitioned the disk drive. If any of your partitions are not primary (like extended) sysinstall will lock up. 2. Alt+F1 has the debug info. During install you can set that to be verbose also. If you could include the last few lines you see that would help a lot as well. Rudy ---jackson@msrce.howard.edu wrote: > > >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 > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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