From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 2:50:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE0D37B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-755.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.55]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id EAA12509; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 04:49:59 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <001601c05860$5dfadc00$0200000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "DONGSHENG" , References: <13756.001127@ly-public.sd.cninfo.net> Subject: Re: How can i proceed further ? Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 04:53:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "DONGSHENG" To: Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 4:08 AM Subject: How can i proceed further ? > Dear Sirs, > > I have a notebook of NEC PC-9821 Na12/H10. > Now i wann install freeBSD on it, so first i made a > boot floppies of 3.5"(1.44M),and booted up the computer, > and executed all boot files(two floppies),system prompted > to insert floppy disk to install OS. > > Before above work done, i have downloaded bin98.inf and > bin98.aa , bin98.ab,.... > and in our pure DOS environment, i used FDIMAGE command to > copy bin98.inf to floppy disk,and inserted it into floppy > drive. but system said "error mounting floppy fdo (/dev/fdo.1440) > on /dist: Invalid argument" > > I didn't know how to proceed further. > > I can affirm it was ok to boot system before starting installation > from floppies, the problem is installation floppies. > it should be insert floppy contenting bin98.inf first ? > or first inserting floppy contenting bin98.aa? > Or is there has any other problems? > > Thanks for your help in advance! > > Yours sincerely, > > Liu Qi Zhong > >From China > > I am pretty sure that the floppy you want to start with is the bin.aa floppy. I am also pretty sure that installing from floppies is the least desirable way to install FreeBSD. The chance of having a bad floppy is pretty high. If there is any way that you can get that laptop connected to the internet you can do an FTP install instead. (I think I would do that rather than use floppies even on a 56k dial-up connection.) Josh > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message