Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:49:10 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Steve Howe <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990525224910.C277@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>; from Steve Howe on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:16:15PM %2B0100 References: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>
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On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:16:15PM +0100, Steve Howe wrote:
> Well,
>
> 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.
>
In what way doesn't it work? You mean your PC doesn't support
booting from CD or that the FreeBSD kernel can't find the CD drive?
> 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?
>
kern.flp and mfsroot.flp are for 3.x only. For 2.2.8 the file is:
<CD-ROM 1>\floppies\boot.flp
but you can make the floppy by running makeflp.bat in the root
directory of CD 1.
HTH
> Any help and advice gratefully received,
>
> cheers,
>
> Steve Howe
> Harpenden,
> England
>
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