Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:36:22 -0500 From: "John Hawkins" <jhawkins@byesville.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Won't install! Message-ID: <000901be2606$b38a5800$0200a8c0@jh400>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I am trying to install FreeBSD on the 2nd HD (Western Digital) 850 mb drive in my system. When configuring I have set the whole drive to (A) use all drive for for FreeBsd and tell it to install from a DOS partition. I currently have Win95 on the 'C' drive and the installation sets that I am trying to install in a directory on that drive (the C drive is 325 mb, also western digital). FreeBsd says that it can't find the necessary packages but also then goes on to tell me that the installation was a success! But after anwering all the yes/no questions it takes me right back to the main installation screen?! I didn't tell you that this is "3.0_current" I had a successful install of version 2.28 but decided to try RedHat at which time I wiped the drive and started over. I didn't like Redhat at all (as a matter of fact couldn't get it to install at all - and this was from a CD! - the FreeBsd install program IMHO is much easier to use and allows using DOS formatted partitions, which RedHat marks as 100% used and WILL not allow you to install over) I'm at a loss and very disouraged. I've been trying to install this for 3 days solid now and am banging my head. The readme files have been of no help and I'm doing all that the "Install.txt" is telling me to do! What gives and how an I fix it before I give up and keep giving Billy Gates more money - at least his software is easy to set up. HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Discouraged in Ohio, John Hawkins PS. I have the complete installation set on my Dell 400 (d/l'd it from FreeBSD.org) but an't access it either across the LAN because it says that it can't find (or I don't have permission to use?) JH400? The IP address of this (the Dell is 192.168.0.2) and in the setup screen for NFS I set the machine that will hold the FreeBSD as 192.168.0.1. All have a subnet address of 255.255.255.0. The machines recognize each other (thats how I got the sets to the machine that is HOPEFULLY going to have FreeBSD on it) under windows3.11 or Win 95. The NICS ARE NOT the same manufacture but that shouldn't matter. The LAN is hubbed with 2 other machines working fine on it - though they are using Billy's software. [-- 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 4.72.3511.1300"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I am trying to install FreeBSD on the 2nd HD (Western Digital) 850 mb drive in my system. When configuring I have set the whole drive to (A) use all drive for for FreeBsd and tell it to install from a DOS partition. I currently have Win95 on the 'C' drive and the installation sets that I am trying to install in a directory on that drive (the C drive is 325 mb, also western digital). FreeBsd says that it can't find the necessary packages but also then goes on to tell me that the installation was a success! But after anwering all the yes/no questions it takes me right back to the main installation screen?! I didn't tell you that this is "3.0_current" </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I had a successful install of version 2.28 but decided to try RedHat at which time I wiped the drive and started over. I didn't like Redhat at all (as a matter of fact couldn't get it to install at all - and this was from a CD! - the FreeBsd install program IMHO is much easier to use and allows using DOS formatted partitions, which RedHat marks as 100% used and WILL not allow you to install over)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I'm at a loss and very disouraged. I've been trying to install this for 3 days solid now and am banging my head. The readme files have been of no help and I'm doing all that the "Install.txt" is telling me to do! What gives and how an I fix it before I give up and keep giving Billy Gates more money - at least his software is easy to set up. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Discouraged in Ohio,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>John Hawkins</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>PS. I have the complete installation set on my Dell 400 (d/l'd it from FreeBSD.org) but an't access it either across the LAN because it says that it can't find (or I don't have permission to use?) JH400? The IP address of this (the Dell is 192.168.0.2) and in the setup screen for NFS I set the machine that will hold the FreeBSD as 192.168.0.1. All have a subnet address of 255.255.255.0. The machines recognize each other (thats how I got the sets to the machine that is HOPEFULLY going to have FreeBSD on it) under windows3.11 or Win 95. The NICS ARE NOT the same manufacture but that shouldn't matter. The LAN is hubbed with 2 other machines working fine on it - though they are using Billy's software.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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