Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
From: SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. Main problem is: ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed I googled but didn't find any solution. Does anyone have a clue where to find the solution? Jack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net writes: From: SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. Main problem is: ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed I googled but didn't find any solution. Does anyone have a clue where to find the solution? According to my quick look at the code, that message isn't necessarily a hint to the problem. Do you have a RAID array in the machine? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
On 2008-Dec-24 17:29:05 +0100, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Main problem is: ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed This is produced when the ATA subsystem is trying to read RAID metadata off the disk and just means it failed to find any. It's not an error. Can you post more context please. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpTdruFiT2UV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
On 2008-Dec-23 20:32:38 +0100, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Can you try to paste exactly what was on the screen before the freeze for both 6.4 and 7.0? How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Take a photo and put it up somewhere (http://imagebin.ca/ if nowhere else). If scroll lock still works, you can take pictures of earlier output (and if caps/scroll/num lock don't work, that is a useful piece of information). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp7MuaXmUzVi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
Hi, At this moment I have problems installing FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 7.0. After booting from CD the system I get the menu. I have tried all possible options. The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can anyone help me. I never had this problems before on other systems. Thanks Jack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: Hi, At this moment I have problems installing FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 7.0. After booting from CD the system I get the menu. I have tried all possible options. The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can anyone help me. I never had this problems before on other systems. Have you tried disabling DMA or ACPI? hw.ata.ata_dma=0 -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
- Original Message - From: SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can you try to paste exactly what was on the screen before the freeze for both 6.4 and 7.0? How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Jack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) (acd0) The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB Can you try to paste exactly what was on the screen before the freeze for both 6.4 and 7.0? Thanks. --- Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.stardothosting.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0
How can I do this if the systeem freezes??? Good old fashioned pen + paper (as long as it's not too long). Never fails. --- Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.stardothosting.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 6.2 - No floppy devices found!
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 07:32:36 pm Cameron Stuart wrote: Hardware: Maxtron AMD opteron with 3ware 4 port PCI express SATA II raid 5 Problem Description: The 3ware driver must be loaded into the kernel using KLD, but the floppy device cannot be found However, the drive exists, and is configured correctly in the BIOS (IE, the system can boot from the floppy) Attempted Solutions: 1) Tried booting using APCI disabled 2) Tried set hint.fdc.0.flags=1 and the boot shell before continuing into the sysinstall 3) Tried enabling disabling the floppy device in the BIOS Any suggestions or solutions you may have would be greatly appreciated Cheers, Cam Which 3ware card do you have? I made 6.2 iso with working 96xx drivers on them so you can do a regular old install off the cd. I can give you a download link if you'd like, just need to know if you want amd64 or i386. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Problems Installing FreeBSD 6.2 - No floppy devices found!
Hardware: Maxtron AMD opteron with 3ware 4 port PCI express SATA II raid 5 Problem Description: The 3ware driver must be loaded into the kernel using KLD, but the floppy device cannot be found However, the drive exists, and is configured correctly in the BIOS (IE, the system can boot from the floppy) Attempted Solutions: 1) Tried booting using APCI disabled 2) Tried set hint.fdc.0.flags=1 and the boot shell before continuing into the sysinstall 3) Tried enabling disabling the floppy device in the BIOS Any suggestions or solutions you may have would be greatly appreciated Cheers, Cam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Bertrand wrote: It's great you resolved it, and now it's archived. We've all been there. That's why I always try to post my resolution to the listserve, newsgroup, or forum that was helping me out. I don't want someone to read along thinking yes, yesI have that problemhow did they solve it And the click on next message in thread in a vain attempt to find the answer that isn't there. That's happened to me more than I care to count. And it's so frustrating because I wonder if they figured it out and never told anyone or if they gave up. Of course, it's much worse for me to read, Oh, I figured it out and no explanation. I'd rather there be nothing than be left wondering what kind of magic the user conjured to solve his problem. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTarMPvU+8ApmWXIRAs5gAJ9nzRhdC4cegI95mFvFhaUiZQ7MFQCfWhB2 0NGcYd4X8dXf8zjUWbeuBXY= =DBCn -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTL/6PvU+8ApmWXIRAmhnAKC/jmL78x1zz6d/WLn/tTCmAQRACACgqVXJ H2b4Ftvh3s1eJeSh5kEmrWQ= =eMoN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. What are the errors presented before that? It sounds like it can't mount the kernel floppy image for whatever reason. I'd have to suggest that you've try other floppy disk drives and disks to rule out those as points of failure. Also think of the drive that you used to make the floppy diskettes. Since floppies rely on an magnetic medium, with heads to record a stream of data across the surface, certain types of alignment issues can occur. Think of this like a cassette tape recording that sounds fine in your stereo at home but has a horrible hissing sound in your car. Or even the white 'noise' with rented video cassettes, where one must adjust the 'tracking'. I wouldn't give up on this yet but certainly try other floppy drives in both ends and different diskettes. You could even try using the *same* floppy disk drive to make the floppy disks in another computer and re-transplant it back into the target machine. I hope these suggestions help! - -- Chris Slothouber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTMRSs0gLFnnAwn8RAgFZAKDUvCzvIuZKpLXwEYvmUuI10lSrNgCgkQL3 eiUTouaydZ/4Ymu0mFr7nRM= =RSJX -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. What are the errors presented before that? It sounds like it can't mount the kernel floppy image for whatever reason. I'd have to suggest that you've try other floppy disk drives and disks to rule out those as points of failure. Also think of the drive that you used to make the floppy diskettes. Since floppies rely on an magnetic medium, with heads to record a stream of data across the surface, certain types of alignment issues can occur. Think of this like a cassette tape recording that sounds fine in your stereo at home but has a horrible hissing sound in your car. Or even the white 'noise' with rented video cassettes, where one must adjust the 'tracking'. I wouldn't give up on this yet but certainly try other floppy drives in both ends and different diskettes. You could even try using the *same* floppy disk drive to make the floppy disks in another computer and re-transplant it back into the target machine. I hope these suggestions help! I don't want to declare victory too early, but I think I figured it out. You're probably right, but who the f- still has floppies lying around? I certainly couldn't use pristine ones as I was warned to. However, part of the problem with the cd is that at the mountroot prompt I kept typing ufs:acd0 and it barfed. While googling on mountroot, I found cd9660:acd0 (it'd be nice if a list of possible filesystems was provided along with the list of things you can boot from) it then booted off the cd (YAY!) it made like it was booting into freeBSD. Then at the amnesiatic login, I put root then sysinstall and it SEEMS to be going ok. I stopped to write this reply while it was fresh in my head. So it seems that potential crisis was averted. I can read from the cd, just not boot. I'll attempt a cd install and if that doesn't work, at least I can get far enough to do an ftp one. Thanks for your help, - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTMWsPvU+8ApmWXIRAjrjAKDGSzqG4A9CptRSUfJfO+ooEU997ACg1KXc x2Mikt1AbU9Pm/HF655D6SM= =+awy -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-17 16:50, Eric Mesa wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - Chris That still leaves me at mountroot prompt and I have no idea what to do there. What are the errors presented before that? It sounds like it can't mount the kernel floppy image for whatever reason. I'd have to suggest that you've try other floppy disk drives and disks to rule out those as points of failure. Also think of the drive that you used to make the floppy diskettes. Since floppies rely on an magnetic medium, with heads to record a stream of data across the surface, certain types of alignment issues can occur. Think of this like a cassette tape recording that sounds fine in your stereo at home but has a horrible hissing sound in your car. Or even the white 'noise' with rented video cassettes, where one must adjust the 'tracking'. I wouldn't give up on this yet but certainly try other floppy drives in both ends and different diskettes. You could even try using the *same* floppy disk drive to make the floppy disks in another computer and re-transplant it back into the target machine. I hope these suggestions help! That didn't quite work correctly. It apparently caused the CD to become the filesystem which meant I couldn't install. I couldn't figure out a way around it. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTNNEPvU+8ApmWXIRAn85AJ0WyXG9NnI9k/3jiX4aw/XlT9gqtwCfWnG/ S9LgQzsRnukFyPYb45uU54s= =gR0R -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Chris Slothouber said, it's probably an issue with the floppies. My resolution was to remove the hard drive, place it into a machine I knew was capable of installing freeBSD and installing it. Am now in the process of putting it back into its original case to make sure it all worked ok. I'm a bit frustrated, but what can you do? It would be impossible for the freeBSD team to cater to all the corner cases. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGTQYqPvU+8ApmWXIRAoZ+AJsEGBZaw+qtN/2ig4+0yugKeG18kACg5mC3 fbBuwCgDSaV1VEM7n33s18U= =ltyd -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older comptuer
I'm a bit frustrated, but what can you do? It would be impossible for the freeBSD team to cater to all the corner cases. You can move the HD as you did ;) Technically, if you really wanted, you could be the impossible FreeBSD team member who reaches into the corner you've needed catered to. That said, I'm sure it's widely known that Google usually solves all problems that are in the corner you've need catered to, but sometimes not the corner you are in. It's great you resolved it, and now it's archived. We've all been there. disclaimer I couldn't help but laugh at true realization/frustration when I read this post. /disclaimer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. It's a dual processor P2 200 Mhz with 128 MB ram. It has a DVD-ROM and a floppy drive. I was told by the former owner, who built it, that the computer would not install the latest types of Linux installs that required booting from CD. He also told me that the BIOS cannot be updated. He's pretty knowledgeable about computers so I believe him. Here's the procedure I've been following which has been failing for two days now. 1. Use the boot floppy to boot from A: then floppies kern1-kern3 2. After kern3 reinster boot then after hitting enter I get some text, including zf_read: fill error 3. It continues to the BSD Menu - I've tried nearly every option here from Default to ACPI to safe mode to logging mode. 4. it does the device probe - when it gets to the DVD-ROM, it prints out: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Manual root filesystem specification mountroot I am stuck here no matter what I try. This is driving me nuts! If anyone can help me with this I'd be eternally grateful. Everything I found on google either referenced burning a CD or disabling the Zip drive. Oh, I know these CDs are good media because I've used them to install freeBSD 3 times already. Also, I have a commercial BSD CD from 4.5 and one from 5.0pre and neither of them work. Thanks, - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGS5aVPvU+8ApmWXIRAvuRAJ9tFF7awUMHf9u3mnV0dF53JfGLcACg0a5R cF05pKUnEacQ9aajd4k7EtQ= =GIzQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Barnett wrote: Do you have another CD Drive you could use, just to get it installed? Another thing you could try is an FTP install.. I do that all the time and works good if you have faster internet connection. -J I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think it's the CD drive - I think it's related to the bios. Also, I can't get to the FTP part. It never even gets that far. - -- Eric Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com Note: All emails from this address should have a GPG signature. If you have the proper setup you can use this to confirm my identity and that the email was not changed in transit. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGS57yPvU+8ApmWXIRAu05AJ9/gZq/8/Fa6BMuWbcUg9Svfwe9NwCeOIfn Ojaj9Y9fysSdzn4Jc3XfLOg= =JoAl -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing freeBSD 6.2 on older computer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-16 19:41, Eric Mesa wrote: Just acquired an old computer from someone and want to put freeBSD on it. (snip) acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 5. Then it gives me: Hi Eric, Have you tried disconnecting the CD drive and doing an FTP install? - - Chris - -- Chris Slothouber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGS67ds0gLFnnAwn8RAjd4AKCGKjhHk/upEP56f6JtR3Cc29m/bgCZAcVy 3AD1xFo8ettq3EvYLLFXUQ4= =7KGL -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing FreeBSD
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which contains the entire C:drive for backup, and a partition H: for FreeBSD. Anyway, The Boot CD doesn't boot (yes, I changed the BIOS sequence), and the Disk1 and Disk2 won't fit on a CD. I'm new at this, but I do know Windows and DOS inside and out. Question is, what do I do next? everytime I try to 'open' the file(s) Roxio CD Creator opens up. Help! Thanks, Steve The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even too sure about that one ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which contains the entire C:drive for backup, and a partition H: for FreeBSD. Anyway, The Boot CD doesn't boot (yes, I changed the BIOS sequence), and the Disk1 and Disk2 won't fit on a CD. I'm new at this, but I do know Windows and DOS inside and out. Question is, what do I do next? everytime I try to 'open' the file(s) Roxio CD Creator opens up. Help! Thanks, It sounds very much like you just haven't written stuff correctly to CD. 1) You only *need* disk 1 and it boots. Disk 2 contains pre-built packages which you might want. I expect the handbook covers this. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html section on FreeBSD 5.X and above). 2) You need to write disk1 using Roxio or Nero or whatever *as an ISO*, *not* copy it as a file to the CD. The option might say something like image file instead of ISO. Same for disk2, to a different CD of course. Roxio opens up when you click on the ISO because an ISO is a special file format that is basically a dump of a CD. Nothing other than a CD writing program is likely to make much use of it. Forget the boot CD you don't need it. It is, I believe, used for network-only installs and using CD1 is easier for a beginner. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
--- Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which contains the entire C:drive for backup, and a partition H: for FreeBSD. Anyway, The Boot CD doesn't boot (yes, I changed the BIOS sequence), and the Disk1 and Disk2 won't fit on a CD. I'm new at this, but I do know Windows and DOS inside and out. Question is, what do I do next? everytime I try to 'open' the file(s) Roxio CD Creator opens up. Help! Thanks, It sounds very much like you just haven't written stuff correctly to CD. 1) You only *need* disk 1 and it boots. Disk 2 contains pre-built packages which you might want. I expect the handbook covers this. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html section on FreeBSD 5.X and above). 2) You need to write disk1 using Roxio or Nero or whatever *as an ISO*, *not* copy it as a file to the CD. The option might say something like image file instead of ISO. Same for disk2, to a different CD of course. Roxio opens up when you click on the ISO because an ISO is a special file format that is basically a dump of a CD. Nothing other than a CD writing program is likely to make much use of it. Forget the boot CD you don't need it. It is, I believe, used for network-only installs and using CD1 is easier for a beginner. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Just like Alex has pointed out; you have to burn from an ISO / Image. If you are using Roxio 7 it is called: Burn from Disc Image File... Otherwise you may wind up burning the ISO as a single file. Regards, Paulette McGee Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:30:43AM -0600, s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which contains the entire C:drive for backup, and a partition H: for FreeBSD. Anyway, The Boot CD doesn't boot (yes, I changed the BIOS sequence), and the Disk1 and Disk2 won't fit on a CD. I'm new at this, but I do know Windows and DOS inside and out. Question is, what do I do next? everytime I try to 'open' the file(s) Roxio CD Creator opens up. Help! Thanks, Steve The first thought is: did you burn the bood CD correctly. It is already an ISO and should be burned as a plain data file with no reforming or conversion to be bootable or etc. That is the first thing I would verify. If you can get your hands on a different machine, then try booting that with the CD. It won't hurt anything to just boot as long as you don't commit to modifying the disk - for which there are lots of warnings and 'are you really sure you want to do this' messages. You only need the disk1 for booting and installing or running a fixit. The disk2 has additional things you might want to install - ports, if you can't install them over the net. As for where to put the FreeBSD installation, you cannot put it in an MS drive such as h:. It has to go in to its own primary slice. MS does not know how to recognize, read or write a FreeBSD slice. So if it is something MS can see, then it is not a FreeBSD primary slice. If MS uses the whole drive, you will need to either wipe out the MS stuff or shrink those slices to make room for a FreeBSD slice. You can look at it with the FreeBSD fdisk routine in the fixit shell. - But, of course, you have to get it to boot to the CD first. Then, since the existing slices are probably NTFS, you may need a special utility to shrink them. There are freeware utilities that can handle FAT slices, but not NTFS. I have been quite successful using Partition Magic to manipulate disk slicing including NTFS. It is generally available for about $70 the last I checked. With that you create a Primary Partition of 'unknown' type in empty space obtained by either shrinking or deleting currently existing partitions.NOTE here that the MS world calls these primary partitions, but the BSD UNIX world calls them slices and uses the term partition for a different kind of disk division - those that further subdivide slices. So, do some more studying and check out that CD burn. jerry The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even too sure about that one ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the next installation process is Fdisk : no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed please help. Regards, Mo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0
You need to provide more information on your system such as what disk controller(s) it has and what hard disks. -Derek At 07:24 AM 4/16/2006, Mohamad Babaei wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the next installation process is Fdisk : no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed please help. Regards, Mo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0
try trying turn plug-n-play and power management in the pc bios. post the boot probe log here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mohamad Babaei Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 8:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when the next installation process is Fdisk : no disks found! please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed please help. Regards, Mo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing FreeBSD 5.4
Hi everybody! I'm having problems trying the Default installation (booting from the CD-ROM) of FreeBSD 5.4 Release in a HP ProLiant ML150 G2 server http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantml150/, with two Maxtor MaXLine http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/enterprise_applications/maxline_plus_ ii/ SATA drives, configured as RAID-1 with an Intel RAID Controller SRCS14L http://www.intel.com/design/servers/buildingblocks/srcs14l/. The following error message appears: ata0-master: FAILURE-ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out ata0-master: FAILURE-ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out ata0-master: FAILURE-ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI to settle (and it hangs forever) In the other hand, I've tried the Safe Mode installation, but when i finish and reboot, it mess up the array. I've readed this previous postings: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/066914.ht ml http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/067082.ht ml I'd love to recieve any comment/suggestion in order to accomplish a normal installation process. Thank you very much in advance! Hernán Nicolás Taboada http://www.idealistas.org Acción Sin Fronteras en Argentina ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing FreeBSD with 3ware 9500S-4LP
Hi, finally i received my new raid-controller, bu i have problems installing FreeBSD on it :/ I tried different releases and current snapshots... 5.1-Release w ACPI: Loading twa.ko (binary distribution of 3ware.com for 5.2) in sysinstall failes. w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. 5.2-Release w ACPI: loaded twa.ko in sysinstall. install went ok, on next reboot it just halts after BTX-Loader. I cannot load twa.ko in loader. w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. 5.2.1-Release identical to 5.2 Release. 5.2-CURRENT-20040420 w ACPI: install went ok, on next reboot the following message scrolls the screen and it reboots: Console internal keyboard/video (or sth. like that) w/o ACPI: same as w ACPI. 5.2-CURRENT-20040504 identical to 5.2-CURRENT-20040420 5.2-CURRENT-20040617 identical to 5.2-CURRENT-20040420 I attached a normal and a verbose-dmesg. As I'm new to BSD i don't know what to do now. Thanks, Patrick -- === Patrick Hurrelmann | Programming today is a race between software Mannheim, Germany | engineers striving to build bigger and better | idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying outi at bytephobia.de | to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, www.bytephobia.de | the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook dmesg.txt Description: Binary data dmesg_verbose.txt Description: Binary data ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do everything im supposed to do and the I reboot off the kernel.flp disk that works fine then it says to put in msfroot.flp disk i do that and then hit enter the problem is i reboot and it gives a message saying something like this: /kernel default 0:fd(0,a)fd0 boot: i dont know what this is can you please help me so that i can actually get to the installation process Sounds to me like your mfsroot.flp disk didn't come out quite right. Floppies are not at all reliable, and a single bad sector will stop them working for the FreeBSD install -- the install floppies have to pack in a great deal of stuff and they need to use practically every available byte on the disks. Try again building a new mfsroot.flp disk, preferably on a brand new floppy. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
I'm not an FreeBSD expert (as you I'm coming from linux). But when I installed my FreeBSD on my old PC, I used these commands to preparing boot floppies : (On linux ...) : dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/mfsroot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b dd if=/mnt/cdrom/floppies/drivers.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b Then put the CDROM and the first floppy (kern.flp) And then follow the instructions (next floppy : mfsroot.flp) It should be work. Bye [ On Fri, 22 Aug, 2003 at 9:32, Matthew Seaman wrote: ] Matthew On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:27:31PM -0700, R B wrote: Matthew hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux Matthew for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST Matthew x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that Matthew the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i Matthew read through the docs and BSD and it says to create Matthew boot floppies with fdimage i do everything im supposed Matthew to do and the I reboot off the kernel.flp disk that Matthew works fine then it says to put in msfroot.flp disk i Matthew do that and then hit enter the problem is i reboot and Matthew it gives a message saying something like this: Matthew Matthew /kernel Matthew default 0:fd(0,a)fd0 Matthew boot: Matthew Matthew i dont know what this is can you please help me so Matthew that i can actually get to the installation process Matthew Matthew Sounds to me like your mfsroot.flp disk didn't come out quite right. Matthew Floppies are not at all reliable, and a single bad sector will stop Matthew them working for the FreeBSD install -- the install floppies have to Matthew pack in a great deal of stuff and they need to use practically every Matthew available byte on the disks. Matthew Matthew Try again building a new mfsroot.flp disk, preferably on a brand new Matthew floppy. Matthew MatthewCheers, Matthew MatthewMatthew Matthew Matthew -- Matthew Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Matthew Savill Way Matthew PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Matthew Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK [ End of original mail from Matthew Seaman ] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do everything im supposed to do and the I reboot off the kernel.flp disk that works fine then it says to put in msfroot.flp disk i do that and then hit enter the problem is i reboot and it gives a message saying something like this: /kernel default 0:fd(0,a)fd0 boot: i dont know what this is can you please help me so that i can actually get to the installation process THANX-Unix is A Gift From God!! = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing FreeBSD
I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message Missing Operating System. --- [Quipo ISP - Questa E-mail e' stata controllata dal programma Declude Virus] [Quipo ISP - This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message Missing Operating System. sounds like the partition is not bootable start /stand/sysinstall goto configuration and start fdisk place the bar on the freebsd partition and press s after that press W and exit sysinstall. to get into it simply start the machine from the BSD cdrom Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
Hello Bruno, Thursday, January 2, 2003, 6:48:13 PM, you wrote: I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message Missing Operating System. When creating the filesystem and partitions. Did u marked the slice as bootable? If so.. did u also installed a MBR? --- [Quipo ISP - Questa E-mail e' stata controllata dal programma Declude Virus] [Quipo ISP - This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message -- Gr, dwaasje [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problems installing FreeBSD
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:48:13PM +0100, Bruno Campanelli wrote: I've got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message Missing Operating System. Version 2.1.5 is about 7 years out of date. You might want to retry this with a more recent release (we're up to 4.7-RELEASE). The ISO images are available from : ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
