Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 23:42:07 -0700 From: "mark" <doop@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: installation problems Message-ID: <19990410054025.URMA9525.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@cs303000-a.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com>
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when installing freebsd I come accross a number of problems. When I've finished installing the distributions(?) and packages and try and run the post-install HTML docs, I get the error 'unable to open lynx from packages, make sure your installation media is correct', Ive tried installing both lynx and lynx-dev, but it still doesnt seem to work. After that I finish setting up user accounts from the general configuration menu and reboot, when my computer reloads I get 2 choices: F1 DOS, or F5 Drive 1, I installed the freebsd boot manager, but when I press F5, to get to freebsd, it checks my a: and asks for a boot disk. I am new to freebsd but have run linux before, with no problems. I have 2 drives, a 350M boot (c:) drive with win95, and a 2.1gig secondary drive with a 1.0 dos partition and a 1.1 freebsd partition, im installing the boot manager to c: thanks -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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