From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 20: 8:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC4D37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:08:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f18.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F0843FBD for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:08:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mateescu_mihai@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 20:08:15 -0800 Received: from 213.233.93.13 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 07 Mar 2003 04:08:15 GMT X-Originating-IP: [213.233.93.13] From: "Mihai Mateescu" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need help Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 04:08:15 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2003 04:08:15.0578 (UTC) FILETIME=[2D79D3A0:01C2E45F] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello ! I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer, but I failed in the worst way I could: I didn't take serious your advise to back-up my data... Well, I tried to install FreeBSD on a partition on my IDE drive. I must say that I had 4 partitions on a harddrive with 20GB. I used fdimage to make the two floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). I started the intallation process with kern.flp, then with mfsroot.flp and I entered in sysinstall. I begun a standard installation and I created a slice (after I made unused a DOS partition). Then I installed the FreeBSD boot manager (this is the only thing working know) and I tried to install the minimal distributions from a DOS partition. I downloaded from ftp server the entire subdirectory "base" from the 5.0 release directory and I copied into C:\FreeBSD. The installation ended soon with this message: "Error mounting /dev/ad0s3 on /dist: operation not supported by device(19)" After I clicked on OK buton, another message appeared: "Unable to initialize selected media. Would you like to adjust your media configuration and try again?" Another thing: the first kernel configuration menu did not appear; that's why I did not configured any of the drivers. My questions are: "What should I do ?" "Is there a list with all the files (and what are they doing) and directories needed for installation?" - I must say that all the documentation (the handbook) I downloaded is gone...and I'm using just a dial-up connection. Thanks in advance. Mihai Mateescu _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message