Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:34:17 EST From: JASONNYQ <JASONNYQ@aol.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems on freebsd installation Message-ID: <411c2c87.3498293e@aol.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_882387260_boundary Content-ID: <0_882387260@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_882387260_boundary Content-ID: <0_882387260@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: JASONNYQ <JASONNYQ@aol.com> Return-path: <JASONNYQ@aol.com> To: questions@freebsd Subject: freebsd installation Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:35:03 EST Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit how i installed freebsd step1. make a boot floppy --> makeflp.bat step2. boot up using the boot floppy step3. went into user config i had 23 conflicts i reconfigure and had 0 conflicts after that step4 set my disk geometry to match the settings disk geometry 969/128/63 step5 delete dos slice and create bsd slice of 1 gigabyte set the partition active step6 creating the file type root,swp and var i use auto defaults the root file system has 32 mb part(wd0s1a) var 30 mb part(wd0s1e) swap files 73 mb part(wd0s1b) usr 887 mb part(wd0s1f) step7 i chose the installation media CD ROM step8 i installed the everything i had 2 errors on tty2 screen messages DEBUG: ERROR mount /dev/wcd0c fstab spoke to the technician at walnut creek he said those are not really errors that would affect installation step9: i restart my system (i took out the boot floppy) i got the message can' find boot.config then i got the next message can't find the kernel i try at the boot prompt kernel.GENERIC i got the same message can't find the kernel at the boot default prompt BOOT DEFAULT: 0:wd(0,a)kernel message i appreciate if you can help me i am really frustrated at this point thank you frustrated unix student --part0_882387260_boundary--
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