About three years ago (2006) I retired my old computer (Pentium Pro 200MHz, Intel motherboard, 65 MByte disk, Broken floppy drive) and bought a modern, high speed computer.
I put my old computer under the TV set and adapted it as a server that I can use to locally test the performance of web sites I make.
I found out by my research that most sites are hosted on Unix(-like) boxes and use Apache, PHP and MySQL so I determined to make that my sites software suite. With that in mind I selected FreeBSD 6.0, Apache 2.0, PHP 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.0.18 and proceeded to install them all.
I remember having a LOT of trouble with the installation CD in that it would hang waiting for BTX something. Finally I wrote some floppy disks as instructed on the FreeBSD website and with them I was able to finish the installation. My server has been working with the same software since then.
Since I now have some extra time and since my server software is starting to get old I decided to do it again with the latest software as the base.
So I went to the FreeBSD site, found that the latest and greatest is 8.0 and downloaded the RELEASE i386-All file. The next morning I had all 3.65 GByte worth of data. I proceeded to burn 'disk1' onto a blank CD and then put that CD in my server's reader and pressed the RESET button.
What happened next:
1) The computer blinked then proceeded with the BIOS routines.
2) The BIOS finished and the computer then accessed the CD and started the boot routine.
3) When it got to the point that the BTX (??) started it printed "BTX version 1.0 Something version 1.2" or something like that.
4) Did nothing else for half an hour.
FREEBSD PEOPLE: WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN DOING FOR THREE YEARS ?? THIS IS THE SAME PROBLEM FROM THREE YEARS AGO AND STILL IT HASN'T BEEN FIXED !! SHOULDN'T THIS HAVE BEEN FIXED WITH VERSION 6.1 ??
With this longwinded start -- my question:
How can I execute sysinstall with this failure and NO floppy disks? I threw all my floppies away some years ago. x(
I put my old computer under the TV set and adapted it as a server that I can use to locally test the performance of web sites I make.
I found out by my research that most sites are hosted on Unix(-like) boxes and use Apache, PHP and MySQL so I determined to make that my sites software suite. With that in mind I selected FreeBSD 6.0, Apache 2.0, PHP 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.0.18 and proceeded to install them all.
I remember having a LOT of trouble with the installation CD in that it would hang waiting for BTX something. Finally I wrote some floppy disks as instructed on the FreeBSD website and with them I was able to finish the installation. My server has been working with the same software since then.
Since I now have some extra time and since my server software is starting to get old I decided to do it again with the latest software as the base.
So I went to the FreeBSD site, found that the latest and greatest is 8.0 and downloaded the RELEASE i386-All file. The next morning I had all 3.65 GByte worth of data. I proceeded to burn 'disk1' onto a blank CD and then put that CD in my server's reader and pressed the RESET button.
What happened next:
1) The computer blinked then proceeded with the BIOS routines.
2) The BIOS finished and the computer then accessed the CD and started the boot routine.
3) When it got to the point that the BTX (??) started it printed "BTX version 1.0 Something version 1.2" or something like that.
4) Did nothing else for half an hour.
FREEBSD PEOPLE: WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN DOING FOR THREE YEARS ?? THIS IS THE SAME PROBLEM FROM THREE YEARS AGO AND STILL IT HASN'T BEEN FIXED !! SHOULDN'T THIS HAVE BEEN FIXED WITH VERSION 6.1 ??
With this longwinded start -- my question:
How can I execute sysinstall with this failure and NO floppy disks? I threw all my floppies away some years ago. x(