Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:00:01 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: SOS for a Freebsd instalation] Message-ID: <32B66111.100F@shoal.net.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] tried to send this to you but it was returned with "no such local user" so i'll post it to the list, hopefully you'll see it and if i've made a mistake someone will correct me [-- Attachment #2 --] X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <32B65605.4241@shoal.net.au> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 18:12:53 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dirk Hans Krakaur Floranes <dkrakavr@ccr.dsi.uanl.mx> Subject: Re: SOS for a Freebsd instalation References: <199612161556.HAA13885@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit mate, i've just been through the same thing. you need the bin files in /bin on the floppies and make sure that the following files are on the first diskette: A:\BIN\BIN.INF A:\BIN\INSTALL.SH A:\BIN\CHECKSUM.MD5 and maybe A:\BIN\BIN.MTREE i didn't experiment too much but the first two i think were definitely needed on the first disk, you don't have to have 5 bin.a? files on each disk either (although they will fit with these 3 files) as long as they are in order. hope this helps let me know how you go andrew perry andrew@shoal.net.au Dirk Hans Krakaur Floranes wrote: > > ok, this is a bigone so readit if you have time... > > this is a (REAL) history of a friend of my called johny 5 > and its obsesion whit a failed intent of installing > freebsd 2.1.5. > > like 4 months ago jonhy and a freind called jimbo, > tried to install freebsd 2.1.5 in the jimbo's > "pentium-166-16-ram-1.6-gigabyte-windows-95-equiped" > computer... > > they didnt have enougth money to bougth the cd so they > downloded the system from one of the ftp of freebsd.org > in brazil. > > they downloaded the boot4.flp fixit.flp and all the > /bin subdirectory > > and for some reason the boot.flp didnt function so they > used the boot4.flp and evrythings was going so far so > good until they discover thath didnt have space for > another partition.. they didn't know of the fips utility > so after a week they get 23 diskettes & backup all > in the backup was all the bin.?? files and some of the > information that jimbo didnt want to loose... > > so they runed again the boot.flp that they already have > rawrite in a disk.. the from the partitions > utility in the novice window of the installation > program they erased all of the dos partition and then settled > 300 megabytes for a partition of freebsd... > then they reiniciated formated the rest of the disk > installed installed windows 95 filesystem only from a boot disk > with the A:> sys c: command , and > with A:>pkunzip -d freebsd.zip c: they restored the backup > then > they formated all the 20 diskettes > whit the C:>format a: /u > they was specialy carefull in that none > of it had a bad cluster or something > in this case they used another... > all the diskettes was perfect and formated > so they created the bin subdirectory in each one > and copied in it the bin files. > 5 bin in each one... > exactly like the instalation.txt indicates > > evrything was going well and they was very (i mean very) > ilusioneted, motivated, > all this proccess took like five or 6 hours since the begging > until then... then the bug came out... > it was the worst thing that you could imagine. > the most frustrating one. > all the installation process was going well... > the partition, the labeling / they read it all the menus > so they worked well whit evrything > in the media the chosee flopy disks set > in the distribution the one marked as bin. > and then it happen > evrything was going well until the menu > "please insert the flopy disk" > they inserted the first diskette whit the > A:\BIN\BIN.AA > A:\BIN\BIN.AB > A:\BIN\BIN.AC > A:\BIN\BIN.AD > A:\BIN\BIN.AE > files in the drive and then hit the enter > whit sweat int he face and the heart pumping. > and a menu that says > > "Couldn't extract the following distributions > this maybe becouse they were not available on > the instalation media you have chosen" > bin > > they were fully determined so they tried evrything > from changing the directory of a:\bin > to a:\dist > & then to a:\dist\bin, a:\bin.aa, a:\freebsd\bin > a:\freebsd > i mean evrything > then they tried installing from a msdos partition > they created the C:\FREEBSD\BIN directory > and then copied the bin files to it > the same thing happen. > the same awful menu. > > the worst was that the instalation program > didnt find a kernel image to link so they have > to boot from the flopies constantly > > after a few hours triying they give it up > and tried whit the fixit flopie > > the floppie replied whit a # > > and they didn't know enougth unix to fixit.. > > after all they didn't have been root's never. > so they give up heartbrokenly. > > that was 4 months ago... > the last week jhony tried in his own computer the > same thing... this time he had readit all of the > install.txt and most of the freebsd online handbook in fact. > so whit the fips utility he created another partion > of 480 megabytes in the 1.6 Gb (IDE) of his > pentium /133 24-ram computer > and tried exactly the same thing. > and exactly the same thing happened: > > he had downloaded the fips. the boot.flp, fixit.flp > and bin.aa to bin.ee from ftp mirror #2 in a near > computer that had internet conection, > compressed put it back in home uncompresed and installed. > the version was again the 2.1.5 & > this time he had special careful in formating the > diskkets from a ms-dos (6.22) based machine. > (this time the boot.flp works well > and the help files where available > something that wasn't in the boot4.flp) > > and exactly the same thing happened... > he tried again changing the ms-dos subdirectorys > and installing from a ms-dos partition > there where no diferrence. > > but > > this time johny 5 was fully determined. > he find a old unix SVR5 reference manual > put the fixit floppie inside and tried for over 12 > continuos hours to learn enough unix to make the install > proccess from the hostile # prompt. > > he tried mounting and umounting, making nfs to the hard > disk, whit fsck, changing the path removing the floppie > & trying of copy the kernel from the boot.. > > then mounting the ms-dos partition and coping > the bin. files to a new bin directory in /dev/wd0s2 mounted > as /mnt > > and then trying to uncompress it with restore & rrestore > the with gunzip, whit zcat > > he look evrywhere for a command > like the 'sys' of ms-dos > so he dont have to boot from floppie > > some of this functioned... but none enougth to install > the bin files or to link the kernel in the hard disk > > he become obsesionated whit it and since then he is still > trying but now had become pale and thin. > he didnt ate or drink nothing or almost nothing, if some > one speaks to him he didn't answer > or says something about 'the kernel' > im worried about im and his live > so i decided to write this letter to those fellows in > freebsd.org that surely could help. > what should johny do > where was the mistake? > in compressing the files at the beggining? > should he downloaded it again and try it all? > its a bug in the installation program? > should the bin files go in another subdirectory? > i mean it was in a:\bin > should it be in a:\dist? or something > its a bug in the instalation program? > are somewhere a procedure to install the kernel > and the all the system in the hard disk trougth > the fixit # prompt ? > and finally... > to install freebsd, what should he done?
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