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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA
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Welcome to FreeBSD! This document has been put together in an effort
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to make initial installation of the system as easy as possible.
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1. To install FreeBSD you will need 4 floppies, as well as the bulk of
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the distribution on some other medium (floppy, tape, CD, etc). If
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you've retrieved this release from the net, you'll first have to make
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the floppies yourself using the supplied images.
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Due to the differences in PC configurations, we've found it necessary
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to provide multiple initial boot images that provide kernels for
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different types of systems.
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If your disk controller is one of:
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IDE/ST506
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Adaptec 1542{A,B,C}
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Adaptec 1742A
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Then please use the disk image: kcopy-ah-floppy
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to construct your boot floppy.
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If your disk controller is one of:
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Bustek 742a
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UltraStore {14,34}F
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Then please use the disk image: kcopy-bt-floppy
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to construct your boot floppy.
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Next, make a second floppy from the disk image: filesystem-floppy
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You'll need this for the second stage of the boot process.
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Next, make a third floppy from the disk image: cpio-floppy
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You'll need this for the last stage of the boot process.
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Finally, make a fourth floppy from the disk image: dos-floppy
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You'll need this for the last stage of the boot process.
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This disk is MS-DOS readable and contains the os-bs boot manager
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(for use if you are installing more than one operating system on disk.)
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2. Boot the first floppy. When it asks you to insert the file system,
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insert your second ``filesystem-floppy.'' Follow the instructions
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that floppy gives you. If partitions already exist on the hard disk,
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then by default, FreeBSD attempts to install at the end of these.
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Before rebooting, note the type of disk it says to copy the kernel
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to, ``sd0a'' or ``wd0a'' (``sd0a'' is for SCSI systems, ``wd0a'' is
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for all others.) When the system halts, go on to the next step.
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3. Boot the first floppy again, but this time when it asks
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you to insert the file system floppy, just press the return key.
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Follow the instructions that the floppy gives you. When you see
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the ``kc>'' prompt, type ``copy'' (without quotes). At the next prompt,
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``copy kernel to>'', type either ``sd0a'' or ``wd0a'' as given in
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the previous step. When the system halts, go on to the next step.
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4. Making sure that there's no floppy in the drive, press return to boot
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from the hard disk. After it has booted and is asking what drive the
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cpio floppy is in, insert the third floppy (cpio-floppy) into a
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floppy drive and answer the question about what drive it is in.
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Note that 0 is the same as DOS drive A:, and 1 is the same as DOS
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drive B:
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5. After the cpio-floppy has been copied to the disk, remove it from the
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drive and insert the fourth floppy (dos-floppy). Again, specify the
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drive to read from.
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5. After the dos-floppy has been copied to the disk, enter `halt' at
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the command prompt.
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6. When the system asks you to press the return key to reboot, first
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remove the floppy and then press the return key to boot from the hard
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disk.
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7. At this point you will get 4 errors from the fsck on boot, these
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are normal and are caused by files that were open when the
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/dev entries were built - just ignore them. The system will
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correct these errors and then halt, after which you should press
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the return key again to reboot with a clean system.
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8. Congratulations, you've got the mini FreeBSD system on your disk!
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9. Follow the instructions about set_tmp_dir and extract that
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will come on your screen after you've pressed the return key.
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10. You will get the following errors while extracting the bin
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distribution, you can safely ignore them.
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/tmp/tar: Could not create file bin/sh : Text file busy
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/tmp/tar: Could not create file sbin/init : Text file busy
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/tmp/tar: Could not link .profile to root/.profile : File exists
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11. Run the configure command to set up some of the /etc files by
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typing ``configure''. You will have to edit /etc/netstart after
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this if you have a networking interface.
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12. Reboot so that the system comes up multiuser by typing ``reboot''.
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13. You are now running FreeBSD! Congradulations! You may now continue
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with installing the source distribution, or stop here for now.
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Should you decided to postpone further installation, you should
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probably save the ``installing profile'' for possible future use by
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saving it and linking a default profile into place.
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Do it like this:
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mv /.profile /.profile.install
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ln /root/.profile /.profile
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14. If your system has several operating systems, you may want to install
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the Thomas Wolfram's os-bs boot manager for selecting which system to
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boot. This works well with DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and other systems. To
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install it, boot the system with MS-DOS and insert the dos-floppy of
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the FreeBSD install suite in floppy drive A:. Then enter the DOS
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commands:
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> A:
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> os-bs135
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> cd os-bs
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> os-bs
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Use the cursor keys to highlight the install option and hit
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ENTER. The readme.1st file in the os-bs directory contains
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more information about os-bs.
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If you choose not to install os-bs, then fdisk can be used to change
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the boot system. This is done by setting the primary partition for
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that system active. FreeBSD has an fdisk command that can be used
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for this purpose as well.
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15. In addition to the FreeBSD source and binary distributions, many
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additional packages, such as X11 and TeX, may be obtained from
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freebsd.cdrom.com - please have a look around! You may also find
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this a good time to read the release notes in /usr/src/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.
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End of $Id: floppy.install_notes,v 1.6 1993/09/09 13:52:35 alm Exp $
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