problem while installing FreeBSD
I am installing FreeBSD 4.10 from CD. The computer hung up after rebooting and I am not getting Probe result. Computer and keyboard seems to be hung up. I don't see any conflicting devices on my computer. Can you help me on this? Thanks. bawan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem while installing FreeBSD
I tried with options Start kernel configuration and Skip Kernel Configuration and have same result. Keyboard is not getting off even I do cold boot, but system start and same thing repeats. My computer description is: API Multiprocessor PC NVDIA RIVA TNT2 Model display card NIC 3COM (3c905c-TX) Processors: AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ SCSI and RAID Controller: SX6000(tm) IDE RAID Controller Please let me know if you need anymore hardware information. Note: I am installing from CD, do you think I have to try installing from FTP. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:47 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I just started installing it. There is no any extra peripheral connected to it. I think I am on first step, I am suppose to get Sysinstall menu after reboot, but it gets stuck after saying rebooting... When replying to a post, please ensure you Cc: the list, so that everyone following the thread knows what is happening. It is also beneficial to knew users who 'lurk' but haven't yet posted that may be having similar issues. Now, back to the subject... If you've already installed FBSD, sysinstall should not come back up by default. The machine should boot, then you should be dropped right at the command prompt. If I understand correctly, the last message you see is 'Rebooting...'? If this is so, what happens after a cold boot? Post the messages where it gets stuck. Also, this may be a good time to post your hardware (mobo, NIC, and additional info). Regards, Steve Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:07 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD I am installing FreeBSD 4.10 from CD. The computer hung up after rebooting and I am not getting Probe result. Computer and keyboard seems to be hung up. Where exactly is it hung? What is the last few lines of output that is displayed? Do you have any extra peripherals plugged in (ie. scanner, camera, CF cards etc)? If so, unplug all unneccisary devices and try to boot again. Steve I don't see any conflicting devices on my computer. Can you help me on this? Thanks. bawan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem while installing FreeBSD
It's the same problem when I remove CD. Does it make sense: I am installing on the machine which already have Windows 2003 server, and file system NTFS. I thought FreeBSD may take care of this file system or it may allow me to do partition while installing. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:24 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I tried with options Start kernel configuration and Skip Kernel Configuration and have same result. Keyboard is not getting off even I do cold boot, but system start and same thing repeats. It sounds like you still have the CD in the drive...Did you follow the instruction to Remove any removable media from the drive.. before you rebooted the machine? Remove the CD (if it is in the CD drive) and boot from the hard disk instead. Cheers, Steve My computer description is: API Multiprocessor PC NVDIA RIVA TNT2 Model display card NIC 3COM (3c905c-TX) Processors: AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ SCSI and RAID Controller: SX6000(tm) IDE RAID Controller Please let me know if you need anymore hardware information. Note: I am installing from CD, do you think I have to try installing from FTP. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:47 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I just started installing it. There is no any extra peripheral connected to it. I think I am on first step, I am suppose to get Sysinstall menu after reboot, but it gets stuck after saying rebooting... When replying to a post, please ensure you Cc: the list, so that everyone following the thread knows what is happening. It is also beneficial to knew users who 'lurk' but haven't yet posted that may be having similar issues. Now, back to the subject... If you've already installed FBSD, sysinstall should not come back up by default. The machine should boot, then you should be dropped right at the command prompt. If I understand correctly, the last message you see is 'Rebooting...'? If this is so, what happens after a cold boot? Post the messages where it gets stuck. Also, this may be a good time to post your hardware (mobo, NIC, and additional info). Regards, Steve Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:07 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD I am installing FreeBSD 4.10 from CD. The computer hung up after rebooting and I am not getting Probe result. Computer and keyboard seems to be hung up. Where exactly is it hung? What is the last few lines of output that is displayed? Do you have any extra peripherals plugged in (ie. scanner, camera, CF cards etc)? If so, unplug all unneccisary devices and try to boot again. Steve I don't see any conflicting devices on my computer. Can you help me on this? Thanks. bawan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem while installing FreeBSD
I deleted the partition and made 1.5Gb of DOS partition. I made two floppy disks as per the instruction. When installing, it read first floppy and ask for second and After that I get kernel configuration menu, I treid skip kernel other configure kernel in visual mode. After save option, it says rebooting...and after reboot, I don't get Sysconfig menu. When I remove disk, it boots to dos and when I reboot without removing disk, it says FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default:0:fd(0,a)/kernel Boot: I don't what to do after this. I am windows guy and this is my first FreeBSD installation. Its kind of frustration for me now. Please help. Do I have to format the dos partition without loading OS on it or what. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:38 PM To: Bawan Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD It's the same problem when I remove CD. Does it make sense: I am installing on the machine which already have Windows 2003 server, and file system NTFS. I thought FreeBSD may take care of this file system or it may allow me to do partition while installing. Thanks. Oh. Did you use something to resize the disk slices before you started the install?FreeBSD will only install [correctly] into empty space on the disk or wipe out everything and install over the top of the whole thing.It will not resize the NTFS slice for you. If you want to install FreeBSD on the machine as a dual-boot system and keep the preinstalled Win2k stuff running, then you need to shrink the NTFS down to make room for FreeBSD. A disk can have up to 4 primary slices (which MS calls 'partitions', by the way) that are numbered 1..4. Generally if you buy a machine and it has something MS preinstalled on it, that MS stuff takes all of the disk and makes it one slice, leaving 3 logically to work with, but no room for them. If the system was from some vendor like Dell, they might have also put a slice with their own diagnostics on the machine, thus using two slices and leaving only 2 slices that can be created. The diagnostic slice usually is very small and MS takes the rest of the disk. Now, if you want to add FreeBSD and still keep the MS (and possibly the diagnostic) slice[s] you need to shrink the MS slice to make room to create another slice, using one of the remaining slice numbers. (The diagnostic slice would be to small to bother with and should just be left alone) If you need to shrink the NTFS slice, then you need something like Partition Magic which is put out by Power Quest to do that before you start with the FreeBSD installation. If it was a FAT or FAT32 slice, there are some free utilities that can be used, but the last I knew, they would not safely handle NTFS. Partition Magic seems to be the most readily available one that can handle shrinking NTFS. It is not free, but is pretty cheap. You can usually find it at such places as Best Buy and Circuit City in the USA and by some online stores. The price was about $69 US. When you get it, - take the CD and make the two floppies according to the instructions. Forget trying to use it by installing it. - Then boot from the floppies. - Look around until you are familiar and clear what you already have on disk. - Shrink the NTFS slice from the top - eg don't try to make room before it, make it at the end of the NTFS slice. - Have Partition Magic complete its pending operations - just quit and say yes to its questions about completing them. - Boot up again from the floppies. - Create a new primary slice out of the new empty space and make it an unspecified (unknown) type (or maybe FAT32 might also be OK). but don't make it any kind of extended slice or other MS sort of thing. - Again make it complete pending operations. - At this time you should be able to install FreeBSD in the newly created slice. When you do, make sure that is what you select and not the 'use the whole disk' option. It will be slice 2 if there is only MS already on the disk and slice 3 if there is both a diagnostic slice and an MS slice. If you also have Linux or something else there as well, it might be slice 4. If there are already 4 slices being used on the disk, you can't do it without getting rid of something first. - During the part in the FreeBSD install where you choose the slice and create it, first you should might want to tell it to delete the new slice and then create it again - it will use only the empty space. You shouldn't have to do this I don't think, but I have had trouble in the past if I just tried to accept the slice as it was created by Partition Magic without having FreeBSD do it too. Then, make sure you tell it to make the slice bootable by selecting that slice and choosing that option. After all this, then you go on to make UNIX partitions within that slice
RE: problem while installing FreeBSD
I am still in process of installing it. The last few line which I see are: -- Stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 Panic: Page Fault Syncing disks... Uptime: 0s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds or press any key for prompt reboot. -- I am not getting Sysinstall menu. I don't know why it says to reboot. Thanks. Bawan -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:24 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I tried with options Start kernel configuration and Skip Kernel Configuration and have same result. Keyboard is not getting off even I do cold boot, but system start and same thing repeats. It sounds like you still have the CD in the drive...Did you follow the instruction to Remove any removable media from the drive.. before you rebooted the machine? Remove the CD (if it is in the CD drive) and boot from the hard disk instead. Cheers, Steve My computer description is: API Multiprocessor PC NVDIA RIVA TNT2 Model display card NIC 3COM (3c905c-TX) Processors: AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ SCSI and RAID Controller: SX6000(tm) IDE RAID Controller Please let me know if you need anymore hardware information. Note: I am installing from CD, do you think I have to try installing from FTP. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:47 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I just started installing it. There is no any extra peripheral connected to it. I think I am on first step, I am suppose to get Sysinstall menu after reboot, but it gets stuck after saying rebooting... When replying to a post, please ensure you Cc: the list, so that everyone following the thread knows what is happening. It is also beneficial to knew users who 'lurk' but haven't yet posted that may be having similar issues. Now, back to the subject... If you've already installed FBSD, sysinstall should not come back up by default. The machine should boot, then you should be dropped right at the command prompt. If I understand correctly, the last message you see is 'Rebooting...'? If this is so, what happens after a cold boot? Post the messages where it gets stuck. Also, this may be a good time to post your hardware (mobo, NIC, and additional info). Regards, Steve Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:07 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD I am installing FreeBSD 4.10 from CD. The computer hung up after rebooting and I am not getting Probe result. Computer and keyboard seems to be hung up. Where exactly is it hung? What is the last few lines of output that is displayed? Do you have any extra peripherals plugged in (ie. scanner, camera, CF cards etc)? If so, unplug all unneccisary devices and try to boot again. Steve I don't see any conflicting devices on my computer. Can you help me on this? Thanks. bawan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: problem while installing FreeBSD
I think my machine might have some hardware which is not recognized by FreeBSD 4.10. I tried to install on other machine from CD and it was installing perfectly. So, I gave up with 4.10 and downloaded 5.2.1 and installed on the same machine, good news is, it installed perfectly. Thanks to you guys for great support. I may need your help again when installing mail toaster on it. Bawan -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:35 AM To: Bawan Cc: 'Steve Bertrand'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD I am still in process of installing it. The last few line which I see are: -- Stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 Panic: Page Fault Syncing disks... Uptime: 0s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds or press any key for prompt reboot. -- The problem that is causing the reboot is the page fault. I don't know why you are getting that. Are you attempting to bootfrom the install CD at that point or from hard disk or something else? You shouldn't see a page fault if you are booting from the CD. I am not getting Sysinstall menu. I don't know why it says to reboot. Yup. You are not getting that far. You are getting a page fault before then. Anyway, please give some more complete information on what steps you have taken and what you have done to get to the point you are seeing the page fault - what you are booting from, if you have selected anything, etc. The fragmentary information you keep giving is not helping. It is not possible to guess what you have done or where you are at. jerry Thanks. Bawan -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:24 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I tried with options Start kernel configuration and Skip Kernel Configuration and have same result. Keyboard is not getting off even I do cold boot, but system start and same thing repeats. It sounds like you still have the CD in the drive...Did you follow the instruction to Remove any removable media from the drive.. before you rebooted the machine? Remove the CD (if it is in the CD drive) and boot from the hard disk instead. Cheers, Steve My computer description is: API Multiprocessor PC NVDIA RIVA TNT2 Model display card NIC 3COM (3c905c-TX) Processors: AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ AMD Athlon (tm) MP 1900+ SCSI and RAID Controller: SX6000(tm) IDE RAID Controller Please let me know if you need anymore hardware information. Note: I am installing from CD, do you think I have to try installing from FTP. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:47 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem while installing FreeBSD I just started installing it. There is no any extra peripheral connected to it. I think I am on first step, I am suppose to get Sysinstall menu after reboot, but it gets stuck after saying rebooting... When replying to a post, please ensure you Cc: the list, so that everyone following the thread knows what is happening. It is also beneficial to knew users who 'lurk' but haven't yet posted that may be having similar issues. Now, back to the subject... If you've already installed FBSD, sysinstall should not come back up by default. The machine should boot, then you should be dropped right at the command prompt. If I understand correctly, the last message you see is 'Rebooting...'? If this is so, what happens after a cold boot? Post the messages where it gets stuck. Also, this may be a good time to post your hardware (mobo, NIC, and additional info). Regards, Steve Thanks. -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:07 AM To: Bawan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem while installing FreeBSD I am installing FreeBSD 4.10 from CD. The computer hung up after rebooting and I am not getting Probe result. Computer and keyboard seems to be hung up. Where exactly is it hung? What is the last few lines of output that is displayed? Do you have any extra peripherals plugged in (ie. scanner, camera, CF cards etc)? If so, unplug all unneccisary devices and try to boot again. Steve I don't see any conflicting devices on my computer. Can you help me on this? Thanks. bawan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED
installing perl5.8.5
I have installed FreeBSD 4.1. The in-built perl is installed on that but I have to install perl5.8.5. I have googled it and found answers to install perl, but I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I can't install it. I am wrting you the steps which I did: 1. Copied perl-5.8.5.tar.gz 2. Extracted this file which seems to be extracted on folder perl-5.8.5 3. Now when I am trying *perl Makefile.PL* it gives me result as Can't open perl script Makefile.PL: No such file or Directory 4. when i am doing *make install* it gives me result as make:don't know how to make install. Stop Can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can solve this issue. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
