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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!cmcl2!jpmorgan.com!jpmorgan.com!jerry.uk.jpmorgan.com!rowe_neville From: Neville P. Rowe <rowe_neville@jpmorgan.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Installation sucess Date: 26 Jun 1994 18:04:38 GMT Organization: J.P. Morgan Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ukfvm$gre@archive.ny.jpmorgan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jerry.uk.jpmorgan.com X-Newsreader: Nuntius Version 1.2 X-XXMessage-ID: <AA3381C70D010BFB@jerry.uk.jpmorgan.com> X-XXDate: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 19:04:39 GMT Good news, I finally got FreeBSD working on my Dell 486/50, now to tackle XFree86. Maybe that can wait. For those who might be interested, here's a brief list of the problems I ran into, and the fixes. Many thanks are due to : Jordan Hubbard Brian J McGovern Jose Manuel Garcia Valdearenas Kent Palmkvist for providing e-mails with hints. My problems were : 3C503 ethernet card would not work using the AUI ethernet port. I was trying to use the llc0 flag specified in the install_notes, it turns out I should be using aui or altphys flags instead. After what appeared to be a sucessful install, on reboot I got a Panic: init died error message, after the biomask message. This was an unfortunate one - there was an error in one of the compressed files (bin_tgz.af) which caused the extract script to complete, but not return an error. Okay, so I should have realised it was installing too quickly, and there were files missing. Many thanks, Despite the two silly problems outlined above, I am amazed it was so easy to install. Neville Rowe rowe_neville@jpmorgan.com