From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 11:10:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01214 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01152 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:10:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.171]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:10:33 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04211; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:06:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:06:16 +0200 (CEST) To: "Christian Booth (Macrosearch Inc)" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: hummmmm... In-Reply-To: <61AC5C9A4B9CD11181A200805F57CD54038C3882@RED-MSG-44> References: <61AC5C9A4B9CD11181A200805F57CD54038C3882@RED-MSG-44> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13785.43206.704665.180913@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Booth (Macrosearch Inc) writes: > Hello, > Ok I downloaded the whole 2.2.7 got everything \bin \tools > etc...etc... I put it on a 2 gig file server. After that 8 of my mate and I > (all with differnent PC's) copied the files over to our systems, and then > installed starting with the boot floppy. We ran in to alot of problems, most > was not finding a file during the install, one could not find anything. I > imaged the same folder structure that was in the handbook on every box, we > formated our PC's and did this two more times still with 0 results. Could > you please let me know what the secret formula is to install FreeBSD. We are > all pretty decent UNIX users and some Admins. We have heard good things > about FreeBSD so we thought that we would give it a try and maybe replace > our LinuX servers with it, if it is good as we have heard. Thank > you. Please give some more details about what you are doing and what is going on, i.e. use -F2 to watch the console-output. while installing. The problem/error should be printed to this console. Please give some more details about - Your hardware / install-medium - install-type (are you trying to install from an FAT-32-partition ?) - where exactly the install fails - and describe the symptoms Malte. > > Christian J.W. Booth > Microsoft Certified Professional Don't want to be rude, but your request was not very professional. Sorry, ... couldn't resist ;) > NT 5.0 Mig Team / SysAdmin > Email: a-cbooth > Phone: 23266 > Teach us to number our days, > that we may gain a heart of wisdom. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message