From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 16:43:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA16314CAB for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:43:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10131; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:43:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Steve Howe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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