From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 06:24:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA10974 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 06:24:18 -0700 Received: from VX23.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU (vx23.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.23]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA10969 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 06:24:02 -0700 Received: from "port 1374"@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au by vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (PMDF V4.3-12 #8933) id <01HVPAH0SI009AF1WG@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:05:10 +1000 Received: from FCIT-M1/SpoolDir by fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au (Mercury 1.21) ; 25 Sep 95 18:05:11 +1000 Received: from SpoolDir by FCIT-M1 (Mercury 1.21); 25 Sep 95 18:04:37 +1000 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:04:33 +0000 From: KEVIN LUXFORD Subject: Problems with Generating FreeBSD via FTP To: questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: kluxford@bs.monash.edu.au Message-id: Organization: FCIT Monash Uni (Clayton) X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.11a) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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