Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 05:37:25PM +1100, dajaasge wrote: Hi there As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, dajaasge wrote: As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer   the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc swapping when adding

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Daniel Bye wrote: I think it fair to say that most people will use ports to compile and install software, rather than relying on the packages on the release ISOs, for the simple reason that the ports tree is a moving target - the packages included with any

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Mike Clarke wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, dajaasge wrote: As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 05:37:25PM +1100, dajaasge wrote: Hi there As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
dajaasge wrote: Hi there As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc swapping when adding packages. If I knew more

Re: Installation

2008-03-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:09:12AM +, Mike Clarke wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Daniel Bye wrote: I think it fair to say that most people will use ports to compile and install software, rather than relying on the packages on the release ISOs, for the simple reason that the ports

Re: Installation freezes

2008-01-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nilesh Bedekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my system with the following configuration : Intel Core2Duo 2.00 GHz Intel 945 Mother Board 1GB DDR2 Ram (Transcend) 160 GB SATA Western Digital Hard Drive Sony DVD-RW (IDE) Realtek RTL 8168 10/100 On-Board

Re: Installation CD

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:41:50PM -0500, Zeeshan Ahmad wrote: Hi, I want to ask which iso image i have to download from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ that will install FreeBSD from CD ROM direclty because there are bootonly iso, disc1 and

Re: Installation CD

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:41:50 -0500 Zeeshan Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to ask which iso image i have to download from this link: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ that will install FreeBSD from CD ROM direclty because there are

Re: installation question

2007-10-16 Thread Rob
Michael Silverstein wrote: There are two installation CD's for FreeBSD 6.2. After booting the first one, and requesting ALL packages and ALL ports, the installation seems to go ok until the end when it complains that it cannot find the requested package on the media from which installation is

RE: Installation from Hard Disk

2007-10-04 Thread a b
The Chapter 2 Installing FreeBSD of the official FreeBSD Handbook describes all possible variants. The are some for you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html In case you tried them but got errors, please show those errors and we will be glad to help you proceed

Re: Installation problems

2007-10-03 Thread James
Hi Siraj, the first place to start looking is undoubtedly the CD itself. First, checksum your .iso image. If this passes, burn to a new CD and try again. Cheaper CD-R cds tend to have a lot of quality issues. James On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:41 +0100, Siraj Shaikh wrote: I am new to FreeBSD,

Re: Installation problems

2007-10-03 Thread Frank Staals
Siraj Shaikh wrote: I am new to FreeBSD, and am trying to install it. I have tried to installa on two separate machines, one a shuttlex xpc, and another an IBM laptop. Both times, I proceed, create the partitions and then get this message Unable to transfer the ... distribution from acd0 and

Re: Installation from Hard Disk

2007-10-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:07:43 +0200 a b wrote: I want install BSD6.2 from Hard Disk. My HD is partitioned in this way: on the MBR there is Grub bootloader; 2 partition are empty; and on the 3rd partition there is Suse 10.1 . I already have downloaded the ISO image (two iso), and if is

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-25 Thread lawrence.petrykanyn
of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending the better part of the weekend doing the installation of 6.2. Wish me luck. Have a great day, Larry From: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-25 Thread Adam J Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I burned another copy of the iso in FreeBSd with burncd using: burncd -f /dev/acd1 6.2-RELEASE-i386.iso fixate and it booted just fine. Thanks for all of your suggestions and advice. Now I will be spending the better part of the weekend doing the installation of

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-25 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Manoliis: I took your advice. I copied the burned iso file into a FreeBSD directory and ran md5 and the check digits did not match. I then copied my downloaded iso image from Win98 into FreeBSD and ran md5 and the digits did match. So there was nothing wrong

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Adam J Richardson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there something simple I'm missing? 2. Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning more copies again? (I've already done it three times...) 3. Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem? 4. Is there anything I can do in

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Joao Barros
On 8/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:49 PM 8/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:28:54PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 12:49 PM 8/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. See (4) I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Joel Hatton wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and l is the

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:31:09AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I commit to the installation of FreeBSD. I get the following message, after

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I commit to the

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Joel Hatton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and l is the respective letter

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Joel Hatton wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:47 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-10 Thread Fredrik Tolf
I think I accidently posted a reply to this via private mail with an invalid source address, but I'm not sure what I did, so I'll take this opportunity to apologize to anyone to gets this message twice. Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 10, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! That's interesting to me. Is there

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate you sharing The motherboard is an Intel D645 GEBV2.

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of you have insight, I'd surely appreciate

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any of

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-09 Thread Kurt Buff
On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD

Re: Installation Problem

2006-12-01 Thread Rachel Florentine
77- Original Message From: Tom McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just install from the FreeBSD ports tree. cd /usr/ports/net/py-ldap2 make install clean Thanks, Rachel Yahoo! Music Unlimited

Re: installation without /usr/local/etc?

2006-11-07 Thread George Fazio
On Tue November 7 2006 16:18, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Trying to learn more about FBSD I decided to use an old box of mine (PII 200, 128 RAM, 17GB HD) to install FBSD-6.1 on it. My question is whether it is normal that after installation I do not have /usr/local/etc (just

Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Bill Moran
Raymond Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a private network, there is no path to the internet. I am looking for methods to update the system to a new version level under these situations. Is there someway to synchronize the sources by burning a CD, without

Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 19:58, Raymond Owens wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a private network, there is no path to the internet. I am looking for methods to update the system to a new version level under these situations. Is there someway to synchronize the sources by burning a CD,

Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 21:03, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: *) that is any medium providing unix file system characteristics No, that's not true. There are only plain files and directories in /usr/src. There are no soft links, as I was expecting. So you can use any filesystem. Any filesystems that

Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Derek Ragona
The simplest way is to take the ISO of the release you want to load and install as an upgrade. You will need to remove or move /usr/src first as an upgrade won't overwrite it if it is found. -Derek At 11:58 AM 7/4/2006, Raymond Owens wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a

Re: installation problem.

2006-06-17 Thread Nick Withers
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:15:38 -0700 Sadashiv Kulthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this is problem related to Windows while trying to install new OS. I know this is BSD forum, but if anyone can help. I'll appreciate. I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem

Re: installation problem.

2006-06-17 Thread bsd
Hello, this is problem related to Windows while trying to install new OS. I know this is BSD forum, but if anyone can help. I'll appreciate. I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem while installing. Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-04 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 02 May 2006, at 5:41 PM, S t i n g r a y wrote: Its been a long time since i installed my FreeBSD server its been running since then , how can i find the installation date time of my server ? If it's been running since you installed it, do 'uptime'. It'll tell you how long the

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-02 Thread Andy Greenwood
If it's actually been running the entire time (no reboots) you can use the uptime command (this info is also displayed in top). If you've rebooted since install, I'm not sure how you could determine that. On 5/2/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its been a long time since i installed

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:41, S t i n g r a y wrote: Its been a long time since i installed my FreeBSD server its been running since then , how can i find the installation date time of my server ? Look at the date of the kernel in /boot. That was the time it was last updated. You can use

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-02 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:18:50AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: Look at the date of the kernel in /boot. That was the time it was last updated. You can use uname -a to find which version and also when it was compiled. Thought there was once an option in ls to show birth/creation date of a

Re: Installation date ?

2006-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/2/06, S t i n g r a y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its been a long time since i installed my FreeBSD server its been running since then , how can i find the installation date time of my server ? If you used sysinstall to update (or create) anything in /etc/rc.conf it leaves a comment line

Re: Installation VMware Workstation 5

2006-03-31 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hi, I am trying install VMwareWorkstation 5 in FreeBSD with ABI Linux...Please see it. = * horus/(root) ./vmware-install.pl Setup is unable to find the lsmod program

Re: installation configuration

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Bryan E. Henning wrote: Is there any way to install free bsd very easily just by popping in a cd rom and following prompts? I tried it and got nowhere fast. [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I ask if you donned your flame-retardant undies before pushing the SEND button? 'Cause you may be setting

Re: installation configuration

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin Kinsey writes: Is there any way to install freebsd very easily just by popping in a cd rom and following prompts? I tried it and got nowhere fast. I would maintain that FreeBSD isn't terribly difficult to install. But if by prompts you mean 6.49 Yes/No type questions, the

RE: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've given up on the installation of FreeBSD 6.0 on my current system. I bought a new system (it was on sale) and will do the installation of FreeBSD 6.0 on it, but I will start a new message thread for that the subject matter being New Computer System.

Re: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/11/06, fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Some data deleted) What happens is that I first get a message ?Building the boot loader arguments? on one line, and shortly afterwards the message ?Relocating the loader and the BTX? on another line. After a delay of about 11 minutes, a

Re: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Some data deleted) What happens is that I first get a message ?Building the boot loader arguments? on one line, and shortly afterwards the message ?Relocating the loader and the BTX? on another line. After a delay of about 11 minutes, a third line appears containing the message ?Starting the

RE: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-11 Thread fbsd_user
(Some data deleted) What happens is that I first get a message ?Building the boot loader arguments? on one line, and shortly afterwards the message ?Relocating the loader and the BTX? on another line. After a delay of about 11 minutes, a third line appears containing the message ?Starting

Re: installation of FreeBSD 6.0

2006-02-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:34:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried several ways to install FreeBSD version 6.0 and all bomb the same way. What happens is that I first get a message ?Building the boot loader arguments? on one line, and shortly afterwards the message

Re: Installation of linux_base on 6.0-RELEASE-p1

2005-12-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed the linux_base but later found out that I needed the linux_base-8. I did a make deinstall for the linux_base and then I tried to install the linux_base-8. cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 make install clean === Installing for

Re: installation

2005-12-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an option to partition it?

RE: installation

2005-12-07 Thread Gayn Winters
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon freddy Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:43 PM I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. If I try and install FreeBSD will

Re: installation

2005-12-07 Thread Doug Hawkins
Gayn Winters wrote: I use Linux, but for a project I am doing it involves the BSD port system so now I want to experience it for myself. As I said I have Linux and Windows with GRUB. If I try and install FreeBSD will it detect I already have grub, a swap drive? Will it also give me an option to

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. Thanks again, MC I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem. Since I was only using those

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-16 Thread Eric Schuele
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. I''m interested in the answer myself Did a little googling, found this (not encouraging) post

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-15 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Eric, thank you very much for your help. I'll have a look if my BIOS settings enable me to boot from there. I'll post here any successes! Thanks again, MC 2005/11/14, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marco Calviani wrote: Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop

Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive

2005-11-14 Thread Eric Schuele
Marco Calviani wrote: Hello freebsd-mobile, i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD newbie. Could you give me

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-10 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:17:02 +0530 Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Provided that it has everything it needs in the kernel

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates

Re: Installation failure

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/30/05, some one [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install FreeBsd 5.0 on i386 and it hangs in the middle of installation process with a ata0: resetting devices.. I thought it was a graphic card, i put a diff one, same error I changed alot of stuff in the BIOS setup trying to make

Re: installation failure

2005-10-29 Thread Eric F Crist
FreeBSD 5.0 is relatively outdated. Try 6.0RC1. On Oct 29, 2005, at 2:28 PM, some one wrote: Any one help!! Installing on i386 platform, AMD Athlon 2100, 512MB memory, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 graphic card I get an error while trying to install FREEBSD 5.0 which is: ata0: reseting

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
I am installing freebsd on this machine for the first time. Anyhow i have installed freebsd on another machine with out any problem which has AMD athlon 2.8 GHz, 256 MB DDR ram, 40 GB SEAGATE HDD. I just wanted to use this machine as my gateway machine which will not have any monitor or so

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault,

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Thank you I will try it out and let you know the output :) But it is not a proper thing to do . anyhow will give it a try On 10/25/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already

Re: Installation problem - device node

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
peter bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install freebsd on a computer with 2 hard disks. This message comes up when it tries to start creating the file system: Unable to find device node for /dev/X in /dev. Install then fails. That kind of depends on what X is. If you mean

Re: Installation woes

2005-09-16 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Rogelio Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Phoenix Award BIOS v6.00PG (as it seems to identify itself) and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus (ST3120026A) and they don't seem to like each other. When partitioning, it's suggested that the harddrive geometry seems unlikely though the

Re: Installation freebsd freezes on Sun Ultra 30

2005-06-03 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Reisenweber?=
Hi Jeroen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I startup it's starts booting de cdroim but freezes after the message jumping to kernel entry at 0xc004. . I found this post on the freebsd/sparc64 list - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2005-May/003120.html - pointing out

Re: installation

2005-05-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:52:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with but i havn't had any luck finding answers. I have that freebsd book by Brian Tiemann 2nd edition with the freebsd 5.0 CD. The 5.0 release is pretty old. Try the latest stable release 5.4 first. If that doesn't work try

Re: installation

2005-05-22 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cant seem to figure out how to install fsbd. The boot loader process seems to start out fine, after running through all my hardware and detecting it all it hangs on mounting root from ufs and the computer locks up. I also tried installing it on my laptop

Re: installation

2005-05-22 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not a guru or anything near it. Still, in the past, I ran into the same problem as you with cd's that came with books. With me, at least, they have proven to be very unreliable. If you have a fast internet connection, you could download a

Re: Installation

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Rossen
On Sunday 10 April 2005 18:09, Viatcheslav Kisselev wrote: Dear developers, I'm trying to install from CD Version: FreeBSD 4.11 MB: P4C800 Video:NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with ACP8X Monitor: LG F900B Is there a reason why you are using 4.11 ,

RE: installation ok, then what?

2005-04-04 Thread Bomgardner,Jon
-Original Message- From: Sonera Oyj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:46 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: installation ok, then what? Hi I need freeBSD for really stupid dummies style assistant. I´ve managed to install bsd, and gotten as far

Re: Installation from Floppies

2005-03-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Nick Wilson wrote: Hi I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a daemon). Taking the default option 1 just starts the boot from

Re: Installation from Floppies

2005-03-28 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Nick Wilson wrote: Ramiro Aceves wrote: Nick Wilson wrote: Hi I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2). At the end of this I get the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing of a daemon). Taking the

Re: Installation Order for Win XP Pro, SuSE 9.2, FreeBSD 5.3

2005-03-22 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Bob Perry wrote: I intend to re-install multiple operating systems onto a box which already has Win XP Pro and SuSE 9.2. After some thought, I've decided to add FreeBSD 5.3 and, in addition, change the Win XP Pro filesytem from NTFS to FAT32 to facilitate file-

Re: installation error

2005-03-04 Thread cyb
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:23 -0800, Boon Kiong wrote: Hi, I tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 and apply auto setting for the installation. At last I got prompt saying MAKEDEV returned non-zero status 100%. Any help will be appreciated, thanks. Maybe you should give 4.11 a try instead. Andreas

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:27:09AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: snip Also one other thing that is important - if you don't get an answer within a week or so, ask again, politely. How do I ask after the second post with no reply? On bended knee? Just keep asking periodically.

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:09 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Ted Mittelstaedt writes: The AIC7880 stuff

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 06:08 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: The AIC7880 stuff is in the good category of stuff from Adaptec, not the junk category. Well, that's nice to hear. I guess my $9000 wasn't entirely wasted. The people that can answer questions don't

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:53 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Ted Mittelstaedt writes: It appears you have

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-02 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: HP didn't manufacture either of the drives nor the SCSI controller so why would you think that they know what they are talking about? They rebranded the drives and took the top 10% or so of production batches (according to someone I knew on the inside). They also

RE: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:52 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? So perhaps FreeBSD is issuing commands

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