Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 04:08:15 +0000 From: "Mihai Mateescu" <mateescu_mihai@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need help Message-ID: <F18ngI33xlrOXigtYTh00013401@hotmail.com>
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Hello ! I tried to install FreeBSD on my computer, but I failed in the worst way I could: I didn't take serious your advise to back-up my data... Well, I tried to install FreeBSD on a partition on my IDE drive. I must say that I had 4 partitions on a harddrive with 20GB. I used fdimage to make the two floppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). I started the intallation process with kern.flp, then with mfsroot.flp and I entered in sysinstall. I begun a standard installation and I created a slice (after I made unused a DOS partition). Then I installed the FreeBSD boot manager (this is the only thing working know) and I tried to install the minimal distributions from a DOS partition. I downloaded from ftp server the entire subdirectory "base" from the 5.0 release directory and I copied into C:\FreeBSD. The installation ended soon with this message: "Error mounting /dev/ad0s3 on /dist: operation not supported by device(19)" After I clicked on OK buton, another message appeared: "Unable to initialize selected media. Would you like to adjust your media configuration and try again?" Another thing: the first kernel configuration menu did not appear; that's why I did not configured any of the drivers. My questions are: "What should I do ?" "Is there a list with all the files (and what are they doing) and directories needed for installation?" - I must say that all the documentation (the handbook) I downloaded is gone...and I'm using just a dial-up connection. Thanks in advance. Mihai Mateescu _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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