Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:25:23 -0700 From: "Roman, Diana BGI SF" <Diana.Roman@bglobal.com> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FW: hmmm... Message-ID: <BFBAAB897D7AD111B48200805F31B0A561A99D@sf-exch4.wfnia.com>
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Hi there. I wrote yesterday with some problems I was having in the install process, and I'm not giving my own partition sizes, I'm choosing A for it to automatically partition itself, as suggested below. I think I'm doing three separate things wrong: 1. In the full screen visual kernel configuration, I don't think I'm getting it to recognize my modem correctly. I have a 486 laptop with an IBM PCMCIA credit card adaptor modem. I delete all the conflicting devices, and add ze0 (the IBM/National Semiconductor PCMCIA Ethernet Adaptor) from the bottom list, and save changes. Then I get a screen which states whether the devices are found or not, but it scrolls past too quickly for me to see if it says 'ze0 - device not found' or something like that. Am I doing this correctly? 2. In the FreeBSD disklabel editor, after I hit 'A' for an automatic partition (I have no OS on this computer currently and want to devote the entire hard drive to BSD) and it prompts me for a 'mount point for the partition' I'm not sure what to enter here. I selected the option which made it possible to add additional OS's in the future; I don't know if that has something to do with it - but the partition it creates for BSD uses up the majority of the space, but there is a second 'chunk' left (another partition?) with a tiny bit of memory in it. What should I enter for the mount point? 3. When I try to install the developer kernel from the FTP site, I run into modem probs again. I get a message, "PPP command started on VTY3 blah blah", so I hit Alt-F3 and get the prompt, "ppp ON> Warning: Can't create /var/run/tun0.pid: No such file or directory." So I type "term" and it prompts me "Warning: Can't create /var/run/cuaa0.if: No such file or directory./Enter to terminal mode./Type '~?' for help." at which point I assume I would type "ATDT(my ISP's phone number), but the keyboard has frozen up and I have to soft reboot the machine. : ( Why does this happen and how do I avoid it? Help!! What am I doing wrong? : ( This is frusterating. > -----Original Message----- > From: Diana Roman [SMTP:dcr10@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 7:23 AM > To: diana.roman@bglobal.com > Subject: Fw: hmmm... > > > > ---------- > > From: Marco A. Barbosa S. <mbarbosa@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> > > To: dcr10@worldnet.att.net > > Subject: hmmm... > > Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 6:57 PM > > > > > > > > when you partition your disk... > > cant you give it a choice maybe.. another a, to > > make it hmmm... automatically partition the disk for you > > ? because... if you give your own partition sizes, you > > probably are going to have problems losing a tiny bit of > > space... > > > > > > -- > > > > ************************************* > > * Marco Antonio Barbosa Santoyo * > > * Facultad de Ciencias, U.A.B.C. * > > * Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico * > > ************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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