From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 15:35:53 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA10956 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA10932 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01480; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:35:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:35:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "David Z. Melczer" cc: questions@freebsd.org, melczeda@umdnj.edu Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD 2.2 alpha In-Reply-To: <199612090453.UAA27285@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, David Z. Melczer wrote: > I am attempting a clean installation of FreeBSD 2.2 alpha downloaded from > the Maine, USA server (www3.freebsd.org). I am attempting to install to an > 850meg partition on a SCSI drive with the source on a 600meg partition on > the same SCSI drive. For some reason, the install continually fails. The > error message generated is that the install program can not find a /bin > directory. I have _two_ copies of the source on my disk drive. One is in > the g:\FreeBSD\bin directory, and the other is in g:\bin directory. > Nothing else exists on the partition. (I figured I'd get a base system > going and then install all of the options at a later time!) 1. You MUST install from a DOS primary partition. Sysinstall is probably trying to install from c:\. Try putting the freebsd\ heirarchy there. 2. Unless your BIOS supports this, you must keep the root partition below the 500mb mark, or else you won't be able to boot it. 3. Try downloading from ftp.freebsd.org instead of the mirrors. Many of them, notably ftp3, are quite behind, and some are even missing X. > There isn't a problem detecting the adaptec controllers, the drives, or > anything else in my system (although it doesn't seem that any Matrox MGA > Millenium drivers exist for Xfree86...but that's later). X 3.2 has a Matrox server. XInside, Inc does too in the accelX server. > The only thing I noticed is that on the ftp server, a file exists called > bin.mtree (or something like that). Unfortunately, under DOS, this is > truncated to bin.mtr (under win95, it is truncated as bin~1.mtr). I believe that's OK. > Could the install program be failing to recognize this file? No, it's probably that sysinstall isn't looking where you think it is. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major