From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 14:52:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A127915965 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 14:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10mP7d-000ECD-0K; Tue, 25 May 1999 21:52:30 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA02219; Tue, 25 May 1999 22:50:21 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id WAA15904; Tue, 25 May 1999 22:49:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:49:10 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Steve Howe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990525224910.C277@marder-1> References: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>; from Steve Howe on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:16:15PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: \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 > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message