From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 10:26:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA01988 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:26:53 -0800 Received: from nebula.tbe.com (nebula.tbe.com [140.165.2.99]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01981 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:26:51 -0800 From: kwhittle@nebula.tbe.com Received: by nebula.tbe.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12272; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:27:19 -0600 Received: from kerryman.tbe.com by WavOpt431.tbe.com via SMTP (931110.SGI/920502.SGI) for @NEBULA.TBE.COM:questions@freebsd.org id AA17690; Mon, 20 Mar 95 12:23:23 -0600 Received: by kerryman.tbe.com (IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.2)/1.2) id AA0482; Mon, 20 Mar 95 12:29:04 -0600 Message-Id: <9503201829.AA0482@kerryman.tbe.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 95 12:16:05 CST To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have finally managed to get FreeBSD v2.0 (from the Walnut Creek CDROM) to boot on my machine. It is a 486DX50 on an AIR EISA/VLB motherboard, 20MB RAM, AHA-2742 SCSI Controller, Cirrus 5422 video, IBM 1GB SCSI HD, Plextor 4Plex SCSI CDROM, Conner Floppy tape, etc. I managed to get the bindist to go on ok. The installation failed on the X11R6 installation and I got dumped into a shell. It boots on the HD ok, but gets an error (page fault?), core dumps and continues on. From the shell I mounted the CDROM (/dev/cd0c) and tried to 'sh extract.sh' for the man pages, and X11R6. When I try to use man I get a core dump, grotty.core. When I try to extract the X distribution I get a core dump when it tries to run tar, tar.core. >From where I am, how do I get tar and man to work properly? What is the proper way to get the rest of the system installed. Should I just start again and make sure I extract the man pages before I try to extract the X? Any help for this newbie to FreeBSD is welcome. Kerry P.S. Where on the CDROM is adduser?