From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 00:14:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA27222 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:14:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA27217 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA14124; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:18:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:18:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Pierre Sarrazin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1.0-R In-Reply-To: <199604270224.WAA26853@maggie.cs.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: > I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. I can't seem > to get a valid kernel on the hard disk. [stuff deleted] > Under "Distributions", I select "Clear" because I intend to get > the bin distribution from the slave disk (on it, there is a 60MB > DOS partition and then a 265MB FreeBSD 2.0.5 partition; in the > latter's filesystem, I've stored the bin.?? files I'll need; > I intend to extract the bindist myself). > > Under the "Media" menu, I don't know precisely what to choose, since I > don't want to extract any distribution. Yes you do. If this is a new install, you MUST include the bin dist. No choice. That is why you are missing a kernel; it is in there. I guess I'm confused as to what you are doing. Are you trying to install a new system? Or are you trying to prepare a new empty disk? > When I select "Commit", the installation starts well but at some point > it starts complaining that it doesn't find a kernel image to link to > on the root file system. Other times, it complains about not finding > the root image. > > This is confusing because I don't always follow the program's > reasoning. Things seemed to be easier before the installation > procedure was made user-friendly... Your sentement is shared with one of my colleagues -- he prefers the 1.1.5.1 text-based install. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major