Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:18:51 -0500 From: lihsin@astro.phys.clemson.edu (Lih-Sin The) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: need help on freebsd installation Message-ID: <9602102118.AA24228@astro.phys.clemson.edu>
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Hi,
I have tried many times to install FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CDROM
January 1996 to our 486dx2 PC with 8MBRAM, Adaptec 1540CF scsi controller,
325MB IDE drive and MICROPOLIS 4110-09NB_Nov189F 1.02GB scsi disk (scsi id 0),
and NEC scsi cdrom (scsi id 4), but always find trouble during the
installation. The sequence/procedure of the installation is shown below.
I'll appreciate very much if you can give me suggestions on how to pass
through the installation. I might missed some installation procedure.
Thanks very much for your attention and helps,
lihsin
lihsin@astro.phys.clemson.edu
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0. in dos, make bootfloppy from cdrom, by typing: makeflp.
1. boot freebsd with floppy or from cdrom by typing: install
2. then "Welcome to FreeBSD window" appears
choose: Novice installation
3. choose sd0 ScSI disk device with spacebar then carriage return
4. a screen show disk name: sd0
disk geometry: 1002 cyls/64 head/32 sectors
offset size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
32 901088 901119 sd0s1 1 unknown 131
901120 124928 1026047 sd0s2 1 unknown 130
1026048 1027832 2053879 - 6 unused 0 <-reverse video
5. type C for creating a partition
with specified size : 1027832
and the screen look as:
disk name: sd0
disk geometry: 1002 cyls/64 head/32 sectors
offset size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
32 901088 901119 sd0s1 1 unknown 131
901120 124928 1026047 sd0s2 1 unknown 130
1026048 1026048 2052095 sd0s3 3 freebsd 165 <-reverse video
2052096 1784 2053879 - 6 unused 0
6. type: S set bootable
7. type: Q for quit
8. then "install Boot Manager for drive sd0?" screen appears,
choose: None with arrow and then spacebar
for Leave the master boot record untouched.
9. then "FreeBSD Disklabel Editor" Screen appears.
choose: A for Auto Defaults for All!
10. then the screen looks like:
FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
disk: sd0 Partition name: sd0s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs
wd0s1 <none> 325MB DOS
sd0s3a / 32MB UFS Y
sd0s3b <none> 27MB SWAP
sd0s3e /var 30MB UFS Y
sd0s3f /usr 411MB UFS Y
11. then, type: Q finish
12. then "Choose Distributions" screen appears,
choose: X-User
13. then "XFree86 3.1.2-S distribution" screen appears,
choose: Basic and select all components with spacebars
choose: Server, select SVGA, VGA16, Mono
choose: Fonts, select all fonts
choose: Exit
14. Finally, choose an installation medium
Install from a FreeBSD cdrom
15. then "User Confirmation Requested" screen appears,
choose: Yes to confirm continuing installation.
16. then Information Dialog scrren appears,
.
making a new file system on /dev/rsd0a
copying initial device files
doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 2633 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3f
doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 4096 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3e
copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem
Loading root iamge from: cd0a
Extracting bin into / directory ....
up to about 19%
panic: bad dir
syncing disk.... 13 13 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ........giving up
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
or at other time gives me Message:
Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)
Unable to transfer the bin distribution from cd0a.
do you want to try to retrieve it again? choose yes
This happens many times, and i have not had any success yet.
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