From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 22:42:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B655314EC3 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doop@home.com) Received: from cs303000-a.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com ([24.64.52.218]) by mail.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with ESMTP id <19990410054025.URMA9525.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@cs303000-a.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com> for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 22:40:25 -0700 From: "mark" To: Subject: installation problems Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 23:42:07 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990410054025.URMA9525.mail.rdc1.ab.home.com@cs303000-a.cgra1.ab.wave.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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