Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:16:15 +0100 From: "Steve Howe" <steve.howe@lhowe.freeserve.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: English buffoon tries something technically ambitious - ie installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <000a01bea6eb$7e2916e0$6aa0883e@default>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Well, not that ambitious really... ...I'm trying to install FreeBSD2.2.8 on an HP Brio with a (non-supported) Goldstar CDROM - CRD8322B. So the CD option doesn't work. I've made myself a boot floppy, following the normal instructions, which seemed to work fine, but only did half the job, in that a boot manager was successfully installed, and Windows 98 (spit) can't see the disk that I allocated to freebsd. But it never had the ability to download all those fine unixy things like files because it had nowhere to download them from. I got on to the web, and found some documentation telling me to copy floppies\kern.flp, and floppies\mfsroot.flp from the CDs. Only problem was that I can't find them on the CDs. And I can't see how this will enable me to download the rest of the stuff that I will need from the CDs either. What's the plan there? Any help and advice gratefully received, cheers, Steve Howe Harpenden, England [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Well, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> not that ambitious really...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> ...I'm trying to install FreeBSD2.2.8 on an HP Brio with a (non-supported) Goldstar CDROM - CRD8322B. So the CD option doesn't work.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> I've made myself a boot floppy, following the normal instructions, which seemed to work fine, but only did half the job, in that a boot manager was successfully installed, and Windows 98 (spit) can't see the disk that I allocated to freebsd.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> But it never had the ability to download all those fine unixy things like files because it had nowhere to download them from.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> I got on to the web, and found some documentation telling me to copy floppies\kern.flp, and floppies\mfsroot.flp from the CDs. Only problem was that I can't find them on the CDs. And I can't see how this will enable me to download the rest of the stuff that I will need from the CDs either. What's the plan there?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Any help and advice gratefully received,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> cheers,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Steve Howe</DIV> <DIV> Harpenden, </DIV> <DIV> England</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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