Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 18:00:28 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: Andrew@micksquadra.its.utas.edu.au (Andrew Stevenson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cant install v2 Message-ID: <199506230830.SAA28708@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <v01510109ac102211102c@[131.217.5.21]> from "Andrew Stevenson" at Jun 23, 95 05:59:01 pm
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Andrew Stevenson stands accused of saying: > Dear questions, :-) No, you're Questions, we're Answers 8) > Our aim is to install FreeBSD v2 on a 486 33Mhz 8MB RAM, ~700MB disk space > over two SCSI drives (adaptec controlled). Not bad. Buy more RAM though 8) > We have downloaded the disk images several times (from various FTP sites) > and we can boot of the disk made from boot.flp and everything goes fine. We Ok. Stop right here. Go to Freebsd.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE and get floppies/boot.flp It sounds like you're trying to install 2.0R, which is out of date. > eventually choose proceed and even later get asked to reboot from the hard > drive - when we do this we get greeted by the boot manager and no matter > what option is chosen it just brings up the boot manager again. We don't > have a chance to feed it the cpio disk. This usually happens when the FreeBSD and BIOS geometries don't match, but other things can cause it. Try 2.0.5 and see what happens. > We want to FTP the main distribution if we can get further (we have FTP > access but perhaps the fact that we don't have any of the other files > available to the installer is causing problems?). The 2.0.5 installer requires nothing but the boot.flp image for FTP install. > Andrew -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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