Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:04:33 +0000 From: KEVIN LUXFORD <KLUXFORD@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with Generating FreeBSD via FTP Message-ID: <D7B150422E@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au>
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Hi there!,
I have two 80486 machines, A and B. I have generated a FreeBSD 2.0.5
system on A from a Walnut Creek CDROM. Machine B is an 8 MB machine
with 124 MB IDE disk. 10 MB of this disk is a primary DOS partition,
the remainder of the disk is devoted to FreeBSD. Machine B has an
Intel ethernet card which has been automatically configured by
SOFTSET.EXE with an I/O address of 300-30F (Hex), IRQ 3 and boot ROM
address of D000 - D1FF. Machine B had no CDROM drive.
On machine A I used vipw to add the line:
ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/nonexistent
I used Windows95 on Machine A to format a 1.44 MB diskette, I then
used rawrite.exe to make a boot floppy for machine B.
The intention is to boot machine B from the floppy, create a FreeBSD
partition, create the slices (30 MB for /, 20 MB for swap and the
remainder for /usr), and load the system using FTP Other //ip address
of Machine A/cdrom.
Two problems:
1. Sometimes the only devices shown are the serial device and lp0.
Device ix0 is not available for selection.
2. When device ix0 is shown available for selection then during the
commit phase the system gets as far as mounting the swap device and
copies the boot information and prints "Panic: page fault
syncing disks 22 22 20 19 7 done
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort"
I get similar results when trying to load from the promiary FreeBSD
site or the local mirror site.
Can you see what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks
Kevin
Kevin Luxford
Dept of Business Systems
Monash University, CLAYTON 3168, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9905 2421 Fax: +61 3 9905 5159
email: kluxford@bs.monash.edu.au
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