From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 13:21:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail10.svr.pol.co.uk (mail10.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016941519A for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 13:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-106.name1.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.160.106] helo=default) by mail10.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10mNEm-0001SE-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 25 May 1999 20:51:45 +0100 Message-ID: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default> From: "Steve Howe" To: Subject: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:16:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEA6F3.D2DE4B80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEA6F3.D2DE4B80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well,=20 not that ambitious really... ...I'm trying to install FreeBSD2.2.8 on an HP Brio with a = (non-supported) Goldstar CDROM - CRD8322B. So the CD option doesn't = work. I've made myself a boot floppy, following the normal instructions, = which seemed to work fine, but only did half the job, in that a boot = manager was successfully installed, and Windows 98 (spit) can't see the = disk that I allocated to freebsd. But it never had the ability to download all those fine unixy things = like files because it had nowhere to download them from. I got on to the web, and found some documentation telling me to copy = floppies\kern.flp, and floppies\mfsroot.flp from the CDs. Only problem = was that I can't find them on the CDs. And I can't see how this will = enable me to download the rest of the stuff that I will need from the = CDs either. What's the plan there? Any help and advice gratefully received, cheers, Steve Howe Harpenden,=20 England =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEA6F3.D2DE4B80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Well,

not that ambitious really...

...I'm trying to install FreeBSD2.2.8 on an HP Brio with a=20 (non-supported) Goldstar CDROM - CRD8322B. So the CD option doesn't = work.

I've made myself a boot floppy, following the normal = instructions,=20 which seemed to work fine, but only did half the job, in that a boot = manager was=20 successfully installed, and Windows 98 (spit) can't see the disk that I=20 allocated to freebsd.

But it never had the ability to download all those fine = unixy things=20 like files because it had nowhere to download them from.

I got on to the web, and found some documentation telling me = to copy=20 floppies\kern.flp, and floppies\mfsroot.flp from the CDs. Only problem = was that=20 I can't find them on the CDs. And I can't see how this will enable me to = download the rest of the stuff that I will need from the CDs either. = What's the=20 plan there?

Any help and advice gratefully received,

cheers,

Steve Howe

Harpenden,

England

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