FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:03:17 -0000
"Admin" <admin at sycos.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Ion-Mihai,
> 
> I had to abandon the installation on this HDD (5600 rpm slower
> device). Now, I installed the system on faster HDD (7200rpm) and was
> able to complete the installation last friday. This morning when I
> tried to boot-up the system, it bi-passed the logger and logged as
> root. After running fsck command, I, have recovered the system and was
> able to login.

Good.

> I have attached the messages file for your advise.

No attachement.

> I have managed to complete the installation on 300MHz system.
> Configuring the XFreeBSD was a bit of struggle.

Welcome to the club.

> When you use sysinstall to generate XFree86Config file, where this
> file is saved? Why the graphical configuration tool option always
> indicate the configuration unsuccessful?

If I remember well (as I don't use it) /root/XF86Config.new

> I have USB floppy drive and when I try to mount, it gives me error
> message'msdosfs: /dev/fd0 No such device or file'. Please advise.

Well, fd0 is for the floppy attched to fdc, but yours is on usb, devfs is
not seeing it so it does not create the entry in /dev.
Please start reading the handbook, the faq and the man pages.
 
> Is there a way to modify the boot loader multiple os boot prompt? One
> of the options showing ??

The only one - modify the source. I don't advised that.

> Please advise a.s.a.p.
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Please drop this, is kinda annoing.


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IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user