Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:23:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Steve Bishop <fike@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD problem Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970116191847.840A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <19970116160851.12226.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Sounds like a little RTFM is in order. Very little is more frustrating than going to a great deal of effort to create _good_ documentation only to discover that very few will read it. Check out the READMEs on the CD, the install program and the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org. -- Jay On 16 Jan 1997, Steve Bishop wrote: ->I just got freeBSD version 2.1.6 from walnut creek. -> ->I first tried to install from dos with the command install ->so the cd-rom ran and then chk out the system then contiuned on to a menu. The ->menu just locked up did not work. -> ->Next I tried to make a boot disk so from the cd I typed makeflp so I put a ->floppy disk in my drive it formatted it then copied the image on to it. Then I ->rebooted my system. My system is a gateway 2000 p5-60 with 16m and 2 IDE hard ->drives. So anyways I just rebooted with the floppy disk and then it prompts I ->just hit enter. It runs a bunch of text then comes up to a menu do u want to ->configure the kernal in visual mode advanced or skip this and contiune with ->installing. So I goto configure in visual mode. Next at the top it says 21 ->conflicts so I expand and try to fix the conflicts there are cards in there ->that I don't even have and they are conflicting with my system so I delete ->them. And my cd-rom is conflicting so I try diff ports and it stopped same with ->my mouse. So there are no more conflicts I hit q and save it. It then goes to ->this menu. Well I setup the harddrive in automode I let the program deside what ->I need but then I go to the novice install and the menu driven program is ->jacked I hit space bar on the packages I want then this DEC encryption program ->keeps on coming up so I hit skip for that I also tried selecting everything so ->I goback to the main there is an X for the package I selected so I try to ->install another section the dumnb DEC encryption thing comes up again. So i go ->back to the main and the X is now on the package I just selected and the other ->x is gone. So I am just using the space bar to select the packages. My mouse ->was not working so I am not sure if the menu program even supports a mouse. ->Next I go to install the packages just to see if it will even install says ->CD-ROM not found..... This damn thing is really pissing me offf. PLEASE HELP -> ->Steve Bishop -> ->--------------------------------------------------------- ->Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ->--------------------------------------------------------- ->
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