From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 8 10:43:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA03185 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA03180 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@prodigy.net) Received: from mail1y-int.prodigy.net (mail1y-ext.prodigy.net [198.83.19.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24522 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jamieshe (slip166-72-245-125.tn.us.ibm.net [166.72.245.125]) by mail1y-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA19208 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:40:04 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971009133621.007a0100@pop.prodigy.net> X-Sender: jamie@pop.prodigy.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 13:36:21 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com From: Jamie Shelton Subject: Installation and booting of FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I am having large problems getting FreeBSD installed and working. I have created the initial installation floppy using FDIMAGE. I have copied the BIN files to floppies that I downloaded from freebsd.cdrom.com. It is version 2.2.2-RELEASE. The install will boot up, I choose that I only want to install the BIN and binary files because I will install X after getting FreeBSD running. The BIN files go from BIN.AA-BIN.CT. All files are copied, it asks me if I want to configure things such as the Root Password(which I was able to set), configure PPP(I did this and PPP opened and it dialed through my modem), then it asks me if I want to make any last minute changes. If I choose Yes, it takes me to where I can install other software components. If I choose No, it takes me back to the first install screen. From there, I choose Exit Install and the system reboots. With the floppy disk out of the drive, BootEasy comes on and asks if I want to load Dos or FreeBSD. I choose FreeBSD and the Boot prompt comes up. Here is what it says word for word: FreeBSD Boot@0x10000:639/31744k of memory Usage:[[[0:][wd](0,a)]/kernel][-abc(dghrsv] Use 1:sd(0,a)Kernel to boot sd0 if it is BIOS drive 1 Use ? for file list or press Enter for defaults If I press Enter, I get the following: Boot: dosdev-80,biosdrive=0,unit=0,maj=0 Can't find /kernel. I have a Cyrix 200mhz with 32 megs of SDRAM, Western Digital 3.1gig hard drive, S3 Virge Video card with 4 megs of ram. The FreeBSD partition is 900 megs. I use the Auto command to create the labels in the partition. Can anyone please help me?