From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 17: 2:59 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 17:02:40 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D28837B402 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:02:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 057396AB6F; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:32:38 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:32:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: mweber@pacbell.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <20010107113237.B97330@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3A5761AB.6744C73E@postoffice.pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5761AB.6744C73E@postoffice.pacbell.net>; from mweber@postoffice.pacbell.net on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:19:24AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 6 January 2001 at 10:19:24 -0800, mweber@postoffice.pacbell.net wrote: > I bought (from fry's) the most recent release. I didn't think that Fry's had anything which wasn't at least two releases out of date. > The CD-ROM has no installation.bat that I know of. What's that? > My computer is an older one (dec lpx+) which has been upgraded from > 48633 to a 486 100. I have 2 disks (recognized) and 40 megs of > memory. A creative CD which is not bootable but is Matsushita 563. > It is recognized by 2 different LINUX distributions but not your > FREEBSD. The Matsushita 563 is supported, but it's not in the GENERIC kernel. You'd have to build a new kernel after installation. > Also, your documentation on how to install from floppies (just a > bare system) leaves a lot to be desired. First you are very unclear > about what files by name are needed. Or your math is way off. Which documentation? Examples, please? > What gives and why cannot I install ? One reason appears to be that you're hazy about details. Which release of FreeBSD? What problems are you having with the floppy install? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message