Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 11:02:17 EST From: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Message-ID: <9601281602.AA13485@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu>
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Hi Joerg, I have a strong suspicion as to what is going on. I was able to install the minimal FreeBSD distribution from floppy. I guess that means that the bin files are not corrupt. I don't have a means to check that the copies on my hard-drive are not corrupt, but I believe that the evidence is against this anyway. My belief is that the FreeBSD kernel is reading from the floppy device correctly, but not reading correctly from my hard- drive. I think that the problem has to lie in the hardware configuration concerning the hard drive disk controllers or memory access controllers. I guess I should ask right now whether or not there is a fundamental incompatibility between my hardware and FreeBSD. If so, I will send it back to Walnut Creek and perhaps check into Linux. I hope not, since I prefer FreeBSD. Here is a brief overview concerning my disk and memory access controllers. I have: Class: Hard disk controllers Device: Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller Resources: IRQ: 15 I/O: 0170h-0177h I/O: 0376h-0376h I/O: FFA8h-FFAFh Class: Hard disk controllers Device: Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller Resources: IRQ: 14 I/O: 01F0h-01F7h I/O: 03F6h-03F6h I/O: FFA0h-FFA7h Class: Floppy Disk controllers Device: Standard Floppy Disk Controller Resources: IRQ: 06 I/O: 03F0h-03F5h I/O: 03F7h-03F7h DMA: 02 Class: System Devices Device: EISA Direct Memory Access Controller Resource: I/O: 0000h-000Fh I/O: 0080h-0090h I/O: 0094h-009Fh I/O: 00C0h-00DEh I/O: 040Bh-040Bh I/O: 0410h-043Fh I/O: 0481h-0483h I/O: 0487h-0487h I/O: 0489h-048Ch I/O: 04D6h-04D6h DMA: 04 Class: System devices Device: Programmable interrupt controller Resources: IRQ: 02 I/O: 0020h-0021h I/O: 00A0h-00A1h Class: System devices Device: PCI bus Resources: I/O: 0CF8h-OCFFh My system bus type is ISA and the BIOS name is American Megatrends. My hard drive geometry is: 788 Cylinders 64 Heads 512 Bytes/Sector 63 Sectors/Track I can provide any additional information that would become necessary. Thanks, J. Metcalf >From j@uriah.heep.sax.de Sun Jan 28 05:17:41 1996 Return-Path: <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de by ruddles.stat.uconn.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13308; Sun, 28 Jan 96 05:17:31 EST Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA12495; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:21:50 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA05155; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:21:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA01779; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:11:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-Id: <199601281011.LAA01779@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD-2.1 from DOS partition To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:11:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jeff@stat.uconn.edu, bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19412.822821518@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 28, 96 01:31:58 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: R As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think it should go into c:/freebsd/dists/bin, but i don't have a DOS > > partition to test it... > What, root.flp? No, most definitely not. It should go in c:\freebsd\floppies Nope, not root.flp, the bin.aa ... bin.XX files. Anyway, this guy has a weird problem. He's always getting ``gzip - invalid compressed data, format violated'', i.e. the files are there and cpio starts extracting, but despite of him telling us that he's verified that the CDROM and disk files are identically, sysinstall doesn't read them right. :( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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