Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:57:32 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Steve Howe' <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie in stalling FreeBSD Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011058FF@site2s1>
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Steve, The plan is, to get enough of FreeBSD running to connect to the internet and download what is needed to finish the installation. Whether that be by direct connection, ppp, etc... You need to make these 2 floppies and boot off of them, and then follow the instructions from there on. Also, if you are trying to install 2.2.8 then the documentation is wrong. 2.2.8 only requires on floppy, a boot.flp. 3.x uses the 2 floppy scheme. What I would suggest is to go to the following URL ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT and read those instructions. The floppy is available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp FDIMAGE is available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/tools/fdimage.exe If you are in windows you MUST exit from windows (read, restart in MS-DOS mode) to make the floppy image. It will NOT work if you do this from within windows. ---- Now.. here's my 2 cents. If you are doing a brand new install of FreeBSD, why not install the latest release of FreeBSD, being at this point 3.2. All of the documentation relevant to 1st time installs, etc is geared toward the newer version. What I STRONGLY suggest doing, no matter what version you choose to install is to go to http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html and read. If you're not willing to read through this then maybe you should reconsider installing any version of UNIX. Go luck, -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Howe [SMTP:steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 4:16 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie > installing FreeBSD > > 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. > > 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, > England > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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