From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 19:59:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27989 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:59:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from imo24.mx.aol.com (imo24.mx.aol.com [198.81.19.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27870 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 19:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from PPLSInc1@aol.com) Received: from PPLSInc1@aol.com by imo24.mx.aol.com (IMOv13.ems) id HJYMa23135 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:57:12 -0500 (EST) From: PPLSInc1 Message-ID: <995a192.3504ba1a@aol.com> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:57:12 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Installation Problem Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 62 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm an experienced linux user, and I've been able to solve most problems I've run across while using slackware and redhat, but freebsd has me stumped. I've got an older mitsumi drive, so I'm trying to install freebsd from a dos partition. I used xcopy32 d: c:\freebsd /s to copy the entire cd to the HDD, and then ran the install.bat to boot. Then I fiddled with the kernel config until I had no conflicts, even though that meant I couldn't use my ps/2 mouse because of console commander or whatever that thing is under input (I disabled it and enabled my ps2 mouse, and the machine froze and just clicked for 3 hours!!!). Then I went through novice installation, discovering too late that a freebsd type 165 partition couldn't be very much more than 500MB's although I'd prefer a 100% freebsd box, and had to format, re-install DOS, and make the attempt again, using fips to restrict my freebsd parition to 498.4MB. When I setup my /usr, /var, and / partitions, everything was fine, and when I selected my installation media as a dos paritition everything was fine...but when I tried to install the packages, it couldn't find anything and complained about packages/INDEX, which I couldn't find anywhere on the CD. What's up? BTW, my cd is from UNIX Unleashed, Sysadmin's Edition from Sams Publishing...I planned to try freebsd and if I liked it, drop slackware and buy a real freebsd cd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message