Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:05:59 +1000 From: Gary Saunders <garys@netconnect.com.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation Message-ID: <33D36CC7.40D4@netconnect.com.au>
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Free BSD 2.2.1 Registration
April 1997
First Name: Gary Last Name: Saunders
City: Stawell State: Victoria Zip: 3380 Country:
Australia
Telephone: (03) 53583750
Em@il Address: garys@netconnect.comm.au
Where did you purchase tis disc? LaserBaud, 48-51 Ramsden St., Clifton
Hill,
Victoria, Australia
www.laserbaud.com.au
What you like about this product? It is a decent operating system.
What You don't like? I haven't been able to get it installed yet.
New disc tiles you would like to see: Will advise as when the need
arises.
Other comments: Intallation to date.
I am trying to install on a PC with a 1.04 GB hard drive.
I tried to install from a boot floppy made from the CD and directly from
the
CD with the same result:
In FDISK Partition Editor - I have the following (Disk Geometry
from
pfdisk):
Disk Name wd0
DISK Geometry: 527 cycles/64 heads/63 sectors = 2124864 sectors
Offset Size End Name Type Dest Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 2124801 2124863 wd0s1 2 fat 6 =
2124864 6048 2130911 - 6 unused 0 A
In the next screen - FreeBSD Label Editor - is where I couldn't get
commands
to work or didn't know what to do.
In the top of the screen under the title "FreeBSD Label Editor" were the
following headings:
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
only (nothing under them) and the command at the bottom.
When I tried A -> You can only do this in a disk slice (at top of
screen).
When I tried C -> You can only do this in a master partition (see top of
screen).
When I tied M = Mount pt. -> Specify a mount point for the partition.
I wasn't sure what was required so I didn't try guessing.
I saw from Help that the following should have been set up:
Name Purpose MinSize Option
---- ------- ------- ------
/ Root filesystem 20MB No
swap swap space 2 * Mem No
/usr system usre files 80MB Yes
I was anable to do so, so, as a result, the subsequent sceens of the
installation were as follows:
No root device found - you must label the partition as / in the label
editor.
No swap devices - you must create at least one swap partition.
WARNING: No /usr filesystem found. This ...
WARNING: No /var file system found ...
Couldn't make filesystem properly. Aborting.
I also used setup to copy files from the CD to my DOS partition, which
it did
in a directory called FREEBSD. However, I was not clear on how to make
use
of this. I got the impression that I need to concatenate some of these
files
after reading About.
As you can see I am a novice with Unix, although I do have a little
experience with this operating system.
I hope I have given you enough information to allow you to help me to
get
the system installed. I have not compressed the Win95 nor created any
partitions with DOS utilities. All I need to do for a start is to be
able
to run Unix and C for a course that I am doing.
I hope eventually to be able to support your efforts - keep up the good
work!
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