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