From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 23:18:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA11636 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:18:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA11629 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05770; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:20:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 23:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barry Soben cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Problems In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961104011303.00677350@fix.net> 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, 3 Nov 1996, Barry Soben wrote: > I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 from CD and I got a bunch of error messages > regarding how the program was unable to find certain files on the CD-ROM. I > got a really strange message going something to the effect of "I'm afraid > .... you won't be able to boot.. " I would have liked to have saved them > somehow, but didn't see any way to do that. What does the ALT-F2 debug screen report? CDROMs shouldn't have problems getting the distributions unless you're leaving bin out. > Also, I gave up on installing the boot manager. I have windows95 on my C > drive. I have a second h/d partitioned 400 megs DOS (D), 400 megs FreeBSD, > and 200 megs extented Dos (E).. I couldn't figure out how if/how/what I > needed to do with my 'c' drive (since it boots first) to install booteasy. > Installing and Running FreeBSD is not very descriptive in this area. I hope my previous message helps you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major