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From: sparkstp@gde.GDEsystems.COM (Timothy P. Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Loading compat1x,2x etc...
Date: 17 Jul 1996 09:06:59 -0700
Organization: GDESystems Inc.
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In article <01bb729c$4cf7e640$64154dc6@me.eve.net> you write:
>Ok, I got FreeBSD 2.1 to install, and it boots. But during install, I got
>a couple of error msgs. One saying that it couldn't find
>compat1x/compat20? Any ideas. Also, said i t couldn't find something like
>man.pages?
>And is there a command set for FreeBSD that is comparable, well, not
>comparable, but will allow me to see whats on the drive now. Ok, thats
>enough to chew on for now, I'm sure there will be more.
>Later, Allen alouden@access.eve.net
I encountered a similar problem loading from floppy and was going to bring
it up. It seems that during the install process, certain files are looked for
and if there not found, it won't install the software. I'm not sure which of
the following files have to be on the lead disk of each install software,
i.e. install.sh, ?????.mtree, or ?????.inf, but I found that when I
did an extract process and put the disk containing those files in first,
the install program whould then prompt for the disk contain the the first
file of the specific software being installed. Any comments from the
"Install Program" creators?
By the by, I too(after almost 2 months) finally got the software to load,
both IDE and SCSI. For those of you who said memory(J"org among others),
give your self a pat on the back and accept my thanks. I had to cannibalize a
perfectly(if that's possible for DOS/Winders) running system to test out
them memory but it worked. The original memory that I bought for the Pentium
system was a pair of 8M nonparity simms. The temporary memory was a pair of 4M
parity simms.
Of course, when I took the memory back to where I bought it they were willing
to do an exchange, for a fee, but they didn't have any 8M parity simms.
Isn't that special.....I had to settle for a pair of 16M parity for a larger
fee.
I haven't found anything in my Award BIOS that allows for the enable/disable
of parity checking, and I've noted others posting here are using
nonparity. I'll entertain comments on that as well.
Finally, I was going to try to download the OS via ftp, but as another
on here noted, it's not as intuitive as touted. I filled in all the
appropriate info in the install "network" menu selecting PPP and dynamic
IP address allocation and couldn't get the install software to acknowledge
the link or catch the address. I finally had to resort to downloading to
a DOS machine and sneakernetting a large stack of floppies.
Oh well......At least I'm finally unixing at home. Finally!
Regards,
Tim
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