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From: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE (Andrej Gabara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help with FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 installation
Date: 25 Sep 1994 13:05:33 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Tuebingen (WSI)
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Reply-To: gabara@peanuts.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE
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Hi, I've been installing FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 on my PC, got up to the 
"Congratulations..." message. Then I set the default installation directory
with set_tmp_dir to /usr/distrib, and typed the command load_fd to load the
binary (bin_tgz.??) distribution, which I copied on 11 disks.
This is what I got:

# load_fd
Read from which drive [c] ? A
Insert floppy in drive A:, then press RETURN to copy files... 
exec: /sbin/mount_pcfs /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy
mount: invalid argument

I checked whether /dev/fd0 and /tmp/floppy exist, and both do. Then I rebooted
to dos to check whether the floppy is any good, and it was. So I figured I did
something stupid and started the installation from the beginning, being careful
to do things excactly as in the README.INSTALL directions. And I do get the same
error again. Everything went smoothly upto this point. I played a little with
trying to mount the floppy by hand, but no success.

BTW, I have another question: If I have 16MB real memory, and I set up a swap
partition of 16MB also, do I get 32MB virtual memory? The instructions imply to
me that every page is mapped onto disk, and not disk+RAM, and hence I'd only get
16MB virtual memory...

Hope to get FreeBSD flying soon...

Thank's
-Andrej