On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:48:44AM +0200, Henrik Zagerholm wrote:
Hi all!
Having problem with installing 5.2.1 on a computer with 2 SATA 80G disk
in RAID 0 (Striping)
There is a WinXP installed already which has 4 primary partitions of 5,
10, 25 and 60G.
My BSD installation went like
I know that writing is my worst form of communication ever!
If something is not clear please ask.
I will not bother you again.
Thanks
Russ
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Mayfield
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 6:12 AM
To:
Francesco Pistolesi wrote:
Hi, I'm an italian user.
Yesterday I've tried to install FreeBSD in an old and empty 486.
I've downloaded the floppies and I've made the images
kern.flp e mfsroot.flp .
I've switched-on the pc with kern.flp floppy inside
at a point the computer has asked to insert
Francesco Pistolesi wrote:
Hi, I'm an italian user.
Yesterday I've tried to install FreeBSD in an old and empty 486.
I've downloaded the floppies and I've made the images
kern.flp e mfsroot.flp .
I've switched-on the pc with kern.flp floppy inside
at a point the computer has asked to
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:28:44 -0500, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly...
I just want to know what the moderator thinks about this and the
ethical conditions that are touched...
There is no official moderator per se. I think whom you are
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:17 AM, JJB wrote:
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly
step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD.
Please do not astroturf
Parv wrote:
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Mark Frank thusly...
[ ... ]
It seems the Message-ID pattern has not changed. Oops, did i say
that out loud?
Yes. :-) Well, this mailing list could use a little comedy now and again--
while I cannot say that amusing other people is a goal of
What would actually be quite nice is to have a fancy GUI install in
addition to the current one. Then at the beginning of the install you
can decide whether you really want to install FreeBSD or look at the
pretty lights in the fancy GUI version. Option 1 is choose the current
way, option 2
Corey Mosher writes:
What would actually be quite nice is to have a fancy GUI install
in addition to the current one. Then at the beginning of the
install you can decide whether you really want to install FreeBSD
or look at the pretty lights in the fancy GUI version. Option 1
is
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote:
Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off,
boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS
type set to non-windows, ect. Give
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:06:38 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500
JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
This kind of pointed detailed information embedded into each
question installer is asked to respond to, provides the installer
with the info necessary
Hello everybody.
Ive been reading all comments onthis subject and just wanted to add my
opinion. A couple of months ago i was only using windows. Only for
downloading stuff and listen to music. My windows skills extended only
to install windows and applications, I never messed with regedit or
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote:
Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off,
boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS
type set to non-windows, ect.
process and why it
is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Donald Turnbull
Subject: Re: Installation
] Behalf Of W. D.
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Installation - More user friendly
At 22:28 3/7/2004, JJB, wrote:
Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to
be improved?
Right at the beginning of sysinstall
* On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:17:00AM -0500 JJB wrote:
WD
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly
step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD.
Hey JJB,
, March 08, 2004 10:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Donald Turnbull; Bob Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly
Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to
be improved?
Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
JJB wrote:
WD
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly
step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD.
1) Surreptitiously plugging your own site, is crass, at best.
2)
not be appropriate for you, but
there are many who it is appropriate for.
Those who are interested can check it out at
www.a1poweruser.com
-Original Message-
From: Mark Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:45 AM
To: JJB; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re
program uses major chunks of
the OS. But, the messages it uses mostly come from just a few places.
jerry
McAllister
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Donald Turnbull; Bob Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly
Well I do
: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: W. D.; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly
JJB wrote:
WD
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want
Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
JJB wrote:
WD
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly
step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD.
1) Surreptitiously plugging your own
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:17 AM, JJB wrote:
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly
step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD.
Please do not astroturf the FreeBSD
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles
Swiger
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 'Free BSD Questions list'
Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:17 AM, JJB wrote:
My web spider robot
On Monday 08 March 2004 12:26 pm, JJB wrote:
Now just where does what you quote say anybody is endorsing
anything.
It's just an pointer to something that may meet the needs of the
poster.
Just like what happens hundreds of times every day in this list.
Please drop your un-professional
On Mar 8, 2004, at 1:26 PM, JJB wrote:
Now just where does what you quote say anybody is endorsing
anything. It's just an pointer to something that may meet the needs
of the
poster. Just like what happens hundreds of times every day in this
list.
You've been advised of the law; if don't think
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:53:15AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote:
Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management
off, boot time virus check
SNIP
Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user
friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat
or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people
lives easier right?
/SNIP
Before the flames start, let me state that
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Mark Frank thusly...
* On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:17:00AM -0500 JJB wrote:
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Hey JJB, fbsd_user, Barbish or whoever you are this week,
It seems
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:17 AM, JJB wrote:
My web spider robot found this web site which is not on any of the
search engines yet.
www.a1poweruser.com
Looks like it offers what you want in the way of user-friendly
step-by-step instructions to installing FBSD.
Please do not astroturf the
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly...
I just want to know what the moderator thinks about this and the
ethical conditions that are touched...
There is no official moderator per se. I think whom you are looking
for is nanny or philosopher ...
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:49:14AM -0800, Donald Turnbull wrote:
Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for
the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux
installation? The point for technology is to make people
Well, basicly, most people I know don't like the graphical installations
like Red Hat and Mandrake. When I worked with Mandrake some time ago I
never chosed the graphical installation either ...
And as far as I know, FreeBSD isn't aiming as much to user
friendly-enviroments as Mandrake is.
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Verzonden: zondag 7 maart 2004 22:02
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Onderwerp: Re: Installation - More user friendly
Well, basicly, most people I know don't like the graphical installations
like Red Hat and Mandrake
On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:49 pm, Donald Turnbull Donald Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more
user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example
like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for
and why it
is so user unfriendly to all but experienced FBSD users.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Johnson
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 8:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Donald Turnbull
Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly
At 22:28 3/7/2004, JJB, wrote:
Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to
be improved?
Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off,
boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:28:03 -0500
JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I do have specific comments about some aspects that needs to
be improved?
Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what
to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off,
boot time
Eric Thies wrote:
I'm pretty new at this so bear with me. Every time I try to install release 5.2 on my 1.8
Athlon w/ 512MB of ram I get an
error that says caught error code 11 That's Bad!, what does this mean, and what must I
do differently to avoid this? I
have tried installing even the
Hi Everybody ,
I want to install FreeBSD 4.9 or 4.9 but after installation finished
then system try to boot again after reset but it's delayed on this
sentence.
**
Agp0: AMD 762 host to AGP bridge mem
0xf430-0xf4300,0xf800-0xfbff id device 0.0 on pci0
**
But is
Sounds like you are trying to customize the slices during the
install process and you are getting it wrong. Use the A option to
auto config the slices for you with an default slice config that
works and you should be all right from there. You sound like newbe
who needs to get an base install
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:31:40 -0500, Claude Fournier wrote:
I am using only one operating system, the intended FreeBSD
with one slice and 3 partitions, a root of 4 gig, a SWAP of 512 mg,
and the rest for /home. Shall I try with another release?
Did you try with a smaller root slice?
If you
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:31:40 -0500, Claude Fournier wrote:
I am using only one operating system, the intended FreeBSD
with one slice and 3 partitions, a root of 4 gig, a SWAP of 512 mg,
and the rest for /home. Shall I try with another release?
I would definitely put more stuff (like
version
instead.
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From: Francisco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Claude Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Installation failure with version 4.9
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Claude Fournier wrote:
No, unfortunately I did not try
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michael Alexander
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installation troubles
Hi,
I am trying to install FreeBSD (have tried 4.9, and the 5.1
ISO's) It
Corrected subject in case someone else is searching for this later on.
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michael Alexander
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installation troubles
-Original Message-
From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:24 AM
To: michael Alexander
Subject: RE: Installation troubles
Stop and think about your question, what is the purpose of raid?
FBSD has no problem using an normal scsi hard drive
Check your system bio's and turn off virus boot detection.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Alexander
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installation troubles
Hi,
I am trying to install FreeBSD
it's enough to download only Disc1 not Disc 2 and mini
vahric
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From: Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FreeBSD-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:43 PM
Subject: Installation question...
Hi list...I've a very low bandwidth and I need to
Hi list...I've a very low bandwidth and I need to download
any of 5-RELEASES, do I need to download disc1 or mini-disc,
I only need a fully functional OS with networking not
packages, thanks...
Well, it is probably all about the same really.
The MNI_ISO is just the install system and it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to install the FreeBSD 4.8 Release on a i386 m/c.
I have burnt the iso images onto a CD.
My problem
The m/c boots uncompressing the kernel and takes me thru the
menu. While choosing the installation Media I get the message
No CD/DVD devices found
Jake Stride [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have had freebsd 4.9 working fine on a dell optiplex, until I
decided to do a re-install today. However, I am now no longer able to
boot freebsd.
The installation proceeds normally, but when I reboot the system, it
gets to the boot manager and then
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:16:29AM -0800, Craig Caughlin wrote:
I'm brand new to FreeBSD (but I've worked with Unix and Linux a little). I'm
trying to install FreeBSD, but I constantly get this Fatal Trap 12: page
fault while in kernel mode error. I don't know where to begin to try and
solve
Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so they may be easily read.
Thanks.
I think that if it is documented that in order to use
FreeBSD, you must have your CD-ROM on a separate IDE
cable that your hard drive, because of __X___ reason,
then that would be more palatable. I could then
easily
Bob Downes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? Have
you tried another branch? (I.e. if you're installing 4.9,
try 5.1, and vice-versa. 5.1 is still not recommended
for production systems, but it seems very, very stable as
my desktop system.)
I am
I'm at my wits end and if I could figure out how to simply remove the boot
loader I wouldn't be far from giving up and
moving on to another OS.
Specs:
PIII 733 Mhz
384 MB Ram
120 GB HD, w/ a windows partition already on it
Also, when I begin a CD install, after it hangs, it strangely won't
Hi Nick,
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:27:20AM -0500, Nick P. wrote:
I am a first-time user who is having a nightmare installing FreeBSD.
I've tried several different methods, but my installation hangs at
various points during the installation.
Have you checked the integrity of the
Nick,
Alt - F2 will give you a screen of console messages that were experienced
during different stages of your installation. Look for error messages or
messages that have been printed in FULL CAPITALS.
Bin is the first major read operation from the CD-ROM that occurs using
the FreeBSD drivers
You're problem looks interesting, what version of freebsd are
you trying?
4.9
Have you setup any swap space? if so how much? You can do this when you setup
freebsd's. partitions. How big are the partitions you've assigned? is there enough
space to install what you've choosen to install?
I
Did the disk slicer complain that your disk geometry was incorrect? (I had that
problem, but it only failed on trying to boot FreeBSD, not in the install, but
might be an issue for some people.)
I think I may have seen that message once in the fifty billion (well okay maybe
thirty) installs I
You should try to switch to the diagnostic console and find out what happens just
before it hangs (you'll know it has when it's staying too long on the same line and
you can't switch to another console)
I'll try to look in one of the future times. I've switched to that console before.
It
Alt - F2 will give you a screen of console messages that were experienced during
different stages of your installation. Look for error messages or messages that have
been printed in FULL CAPITALS.
K.
Bin is the first major read operation from the CD-ROM that occurs using the FreeBSD
drivers
1 - (Easy) Disable the CD-ROM in BIOS and try a Floppy - FTP
install. Does it still hang up?
Yes I tried FTP installs many times.
Did you try disabling the CD-ROM? I'm thinking that maybe the CD may be causing some
hang ups.
Ah, I see, I did not disable the CD-ROM, I did remove it from the
Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so they may be easily read.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:07:32AM -0500, Nick P. wrote:
I think that if it is documented that in order to use FreeBSD, you
must have your CD-ROM on a separate IDE cable that your hard drive,
because of __X___ reason, then
Try stripping the pc down to a bare bones box. Just 1 hard drive and
cdrom drive. Remove all pci cards. If install works then add one
hardware device at a time and boot system.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jamie
Tatton
Sent: Saturday,
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 07:39:01 +0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom:
When I try to boot from CD-ROM to install my FreeBSD 4.6
my computer stops to work. I do:
1) Booting from CD-ROM
2) Skip kernel configuration.
3) Then I see:
[...something before...]
plip0:PLIP network
Wayne Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a HP NetServer E45, with AHA 2910
AHA 2940 SCSI cards. The 2940 has two drives connected.
Each time I try the install, after the Visual screen, it finds the
hardware and then states:
Waiting 15 seconds for
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Lowell Gilbert
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 10:14 AM
To: Wayne Spivak
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installation issue, V4.9 vis a vi constant rebooting
Wayne Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to install
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:34:39 +, Adrian Fisher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please note I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1 onto a blank system. The
system is a Soltek Cubic system with an Athlon 2600+, 512MB DDR RAM, DVD
drive and CD-R/W as well as an 80GB HDD and a 40GB one.
I have followed
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:38 pm, Gustavo Moreira wrote:
Hello! I do not obtain to install FreeBSD 5,1 in my system. I follow the
procedure of sysinstall, however, the following message occurs:
error mouting/dev/acd0 on/dist: in such file or directory.
Valley to detach that this error occurs
murali wrote:
I have used FreeBSd before which installs only on a primary
partition.Does the new version install on a logical partition without
in antway upsetting the current design?
Murali
indeed, i installed it on a logical partition and had no problem at all..
version installed: FreeBSD
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:27:31AM -0500, Greg Jarman wrote:
I downloaded the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. I then start the boot process. I trying
to run on either a Compaq Proliant 360 or Dell PowerEdge. The kern.flp diskette
loads fine, then I exchange diskettes and the mfsroot goes
I had some similar issues w/ an old Compaq Armada running at 150MHz.
However, cpu speed is not the problem here but you probably do not have
enough RAM installed.
To verify that, try to install again. During the time the installation is
running, go to the second (I belive) console and watch the
Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/09/03 14:13]:
First and foremost i'm new to using FreeBSD, so forgive the newbie cry for
help. But I do have experience on Linux, so know my way about a *nux
environment.
I moved from Linux to FreeBSD a while ago. There's some finer things that
aren't
James wrote:
Hello,
First and foremost i'm new to using FreeBSD, so forgive the newbie cry for
help. But I do have experience on Linux, so know my way about a *nux
environment.
I'm currently trying to install version 5.0-CURRENT, my problem is that when
I boot off of the CDROM, it starts loading
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:05:19 -0700, Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
After installing FreeBSD 4.8 into an unpartitioned free-space, it states
that the installation was successful, but when I start the computer and
press F3 to load FreeBSD instead of NT 4, it finally wants me to enter my
It might be helpful to get a UNIX quick reference. O'Reilly makes one
called learning the unix operating system. Its a little book with
basic commands in it.
If you decide to give up on freebsd, I would recommend buying that
Macintosh. Mac OS X has BSD roots as they say. In fact, buying a
Harry Veltman wrote:
After installing FreeBSD 4.8 into an unpartitioned free-space, it states
that the installation was successful, but when I start the computer and
press F3 to load FreeBSD instead of NT 4, it finally wants me to enter my
user name and password. After doing so, it displays a $
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:05:19PM -0700, Harry Veltman wrote:
After installing FreeBSD 4.8 into an unpartitioned free-space, it states
that the installation was successful, but when I start the computer and
press F3 to load FreeBSD instead of NT 4, it finally wants me to enter my
user name
Hi,
please read http://www.lemis.com/questions.html
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:43:18AM +, Mike Dem wrote:
Hey I Decided To Get your Unix Based OS Because I need More of a Challeng
I Do Have Two Questions, First Can I install FreeBSD without using
Partition magic
Of course you can
prasad chandrasekaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to install freebsd 4.7 on my pentium 2
machine standalone machine. The problem is it show 7
conflicts in kernel configuration under network. Since
I have no network card I disable every conflict by
pressing del key.
You probably
On Friday 28 March 2003 02:25 pm, Paul Smith. wrote:
My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at,
acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5%
then you probably want to try 4.7-Release instead. See:
http://www.mired.org/5.0-not-production.html
Good luck,
Tim
Thank you. The network configuration tips helped me connect.
But now I have another problem. After the installation, the X86Free
packages did not load and then something called a base installation
along with man and doc could not be found. I tried installing just the
X-user. That did
Mike wrote:
Thank you. The network configuration tips helped me connect.
But now I have another problem. After the installation, the X86Free
packages did not load and then something called a base installation
along with man and doc could not be found. I tried installing just the
X-user.
Mike wrote:
Hello, I'm installing freebsd or any linux for the first time. I have an
idea of what I'm doing. Because I had trouble with my cdrom, I decided
to ftp, also ensuring that I get the latest release. I went through all the
setup with the floppies, up to the point where I have to
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, scott mcclellan wrote:
I wrote an earlier thread with regards to installing via CD-ROM.
Unfortunately I think I have a hardware technical problem that's beyond
my intellect at this point. (Get a FAILURE error when the boot process
starts - the CD hadn't even started
Thanks Nathan.
I'll try to correct and clarify my previous thread. Following the
installation handbook I had to boot from floppies. When I got to the Kernel
Configuration Menu I chose the full-screen visual mode (suggested). That
screen shows active drivers on top and inactive on the bottom.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:35:45PM -0500, Robinson, Scott wrote:
Thanks Nathan.
I'll try to correct and clarify my previous thread. Following the
installation handbook I had to boot from floppies. When I got to the Kernel
Configuration Menu I chose the full-screen visual mode (suggested).
On Monday 10 February 2003 03:15 am, ZaiD Dashti wrote:
hi
can i install FreeBSD after 8 or 10 GB of HDD ?
or that make the FreeBSD can't boot ?
I have a couple of multi-boots configured that way. They go
c-drive/extended/freebsd. It has worked since about 4.1.
Kent
--
Kent Stewart
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:28:52 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I have a couple of multi-boots configured that way. They go c-
drive/extended/freebsd. It has worked since about 4.1.
Not about the infamous 1024th cylinder limit, but the /extended/freebsd
part -
I tried a
I had thought this was in the early adopters guide (you did read that right?),
but doesn't 5.0 take more memory to install than 4.7 did? I don't know if
that would cause your problem or not, but it seems possible. Try installing
4.7, that should work fine, if not, let us know what problem
I have tried many times to install the current FreeBSD release (4.7) but
am having a problem. Everything works fine until I select CD/DVD for the
media, when the Installation tells me that my CD seems more like an
Audio Disc than a FreeBSD install disc. The problem with this is that it
From: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
FreeBSD team,
I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version,
install FreeBSD using virtual
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Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
From: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager
FreeBSD team,
I would like to ask you
And, to correct/augment my informationGreg WROTE Vinum
KDK
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From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Costa, Rodrigo Luiz Vargas (Rodrigo) [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Installation
Hi!
I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version,
install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM).
Is this possible?
It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read lists right now,
so I'll just chime in and say that TTBOMK it is not
At 9:08 PM on Tuesday 12 November 2002, Toomas Aas wrote:
It seems to me that this is kind of chicken-and-egg problem - if the
support for vinum volumes is implemented as a module (vinum.ko), then
you need to load this module before you can access the logical volume.
Hence, vinum.ko itself
But it could be a kernel compile option, such as NetBSD's and OpenBSD's
RAIDFrame. I set up a server with NetBSD with the root partition on RAID
the other day - works fine.
Only problem is that I had to have the kernel in a non-RAID partition. In
the case of vinum, I suppose one would have to
On Tuesday, 12 November 2002 at 21:08:56 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
Hi!
I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version,
install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM).
Is this possible?
It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read
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(11.01.2002 @ 1548 PST): Charles Pelletier said, in 0.4K:
I've got a 'new' old video card that i want to put in my bsd box. Should I
wait until I've upgraded to 4.7 before i do it or should I do that prior to
upgrading?
Opinions? Reasons?
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