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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Installation cannot work? Date: 8 Sep 1993 15:59:35 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 33 Message-ID: <26kvh7$jh4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za>, Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> wrote: >Someone please publish the trick that is needed to install FreeBSD :-( > >I've got past the cpio-floppy install, and can boot off the hard disk >(SCSI). The probing does not recognise my ethernet card >(WD8003.something that works fine with 386bsd), and complains about a >device "ed0" whatever that might be. Hence I cannot install via the >ethernet as I cannot ifconfig my ethernet card. Send mail to freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com. The author of the ed0 driver is on that list, and it's probably a configuration problem where the ed driver assumes a certain setup that you don't have. > >In fact I wish to install via floppy - it is a published option and is >the only option open to folk who are out in the sticks in Africa so it >needs to work and I need to know how it is done. I cannot even get as >far as the problem of the DOS filenames not being able to be >represented as bin.tar.gz.aa, as the load_fd process cannot find the >mread program. The entire install from floppy setup was broken in GAMMA, but has hopefully been fixed, and when the new floppies are made it should be doable via floppies. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)