Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:43:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tyler Schutjer <tschutj@xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still require help Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970204003901.13156g-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32F1BB79.35C0@xmission.com>
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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Tyler Schutjer wrote: > If this isn't a place for tech support questions (where you get > answered!), can you direct me to one? You are asking in it. > I have the Walnut Creek CD (v2.1.6), and have been trying to install > this thing for about a month now, with no luck. The following is a > summary of what I've gone through; if I can get any one of these > resolved so that I can put this frigging OS on my PC, I'd be eternally > grateful: > > - I attempt to install from the CD in a DOS shell from Windows, and get > a "can't allocate enough memory" error. And this is with 32MB of RAM. Um, no, don't do this since it'll throughly kill Windows. I mean, unless you LIKE crashing Windows and slurping disk space with the dead swapfiles...:) > - I attempt to install from the CD in DOS mode, and get a "can't switch > to protected mode" error. reboot and press F5 when you see 'Starting MS-DOS...' to clean-boot. EMM386 cannot be running. This is noted in the CD leaflet or INSTALL.TXT. > - I attempt to install from a boot floppy I downloaded, and then get to > the part where it asks where I want to install from, and I indicate > from a CD, and I get an error message saying that FreeBSD cannot find > my CD-ROM. It's listed in Compeq's diagnostics utility as follows: > Embedded IDE controller, base address 0x170 > 8X CD-ROM, Drive Position 1 > MatshitaCD-ROM CR-583 Is it found during the boot probe? (look for wcd0) If not, try moving the CD to the slave position on the primary controller. > - I conclude from reading the documentation that my CD is of an > unsupported type, so I take CD 1, and xcopy all of the files on it to > C:\FREEBSD, thinking that I'll install from DOS. Ow, overkill! read d:\INSTALL.TXT or the CD leaflet first. There is a specific directory heirarchy that must be maintained. ANd you certainly don't need all the packages on there, so save yourself 400MB and delete packages\. > So, I go through the boot floppy bit again, but tell it that I want to > install from a DOS partition, and it did it's thing, but gave me > numerous error messages that I didn't quite get. As it stands now, I > take it that it needs to copy/create the filesystems, moving the data > from my DOS/Windows partition to the BSD partition, but for some reason > can't. Here is the DiskLabel Editor's report of my hard disk: > > disk wd0 partition wd0s2 free: 0 blocks (0 MB) > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part > Mount Size Newfs > wd0s1 <none> 1890MB DOS > wd0s2a <none> 32MB * > wd0s2b <none> 42MB SWAP > wd0s2e <none> 30MB * > wd0s2f <none> 443MB * Use DOS FDISk and blow away the FreeBSD slice then try again. Start fresh instead of trying to install over failed installs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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