Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:43:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905251641340.13061-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>
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Please wrap your lines. Thanks. On Tue, 25 May 1999, Steve Howe wrote: > ...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. Er? It should work with the ATAPI/IDE driver without any intervention on your part. > 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. That's normal. Windows doesn't know how to read UFS. > But it never had the ability to download all those fine unixy things > like files because it had nowhere to download them from. You don't have a dial-up connection? > 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? They are _certainly_ on CD 1, or at ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/floppies. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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