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From: techtrak@midcoast.com.au (Luis M. Huesch)
Subject: Installation from DOS partition
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Hi,

just a quick one: 
I've been trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486 VLB machine this weekend,
copying the distributions across the W4WG network from a PC with a SCSI CD
drive but no HD space to a PC with no CD drive but heaps of HD space. 

I FIPSed the 1.2GB target HD, then deleted the extra Primary DOS partion. I
made the boot.flp and root.flp images as suggested and booted the target
machine with the -c option. I adjusted all device CONFs (except for the MS
serial mouse which the system wanted to describe as a bus mouse and said
"Signature not found -FF") and saved the changes. 

The boot process continued briefly until it aborted with "TRAP 12 - Page
fault while in kernel mode", "Supervisor Read, Page not Present", various
pointers etc, "Current process (1) Swapper", and finally, "Panic: Page Fault".

What gives? (I have only 4MB in the target machine, but will add another 4MB
when stores open!)

Rgds
Luis M. Huesch    
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