UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hey
i want to install freebsd 5.1 but i ran into some problems
i have a old cpu, i made boot disks from kern.flp and mfsboot.flp from the cd, and boot up, when i'm done and gonna install, it won't find the cd, then i tryed to installed with ftp, but i coulden't figure out how to do, i have a DHCP connection and as far as i know i ain't suppost to enter ip,dns,gateway etc. but i coulden't continue if i diden't set this options..
my question is if someone know how toi get the cd working or to get dhcp working

thx
/ekizz

don't you have any other maschines? grep your inet settings from there........

(*nix=ifconfig -a, win*=ipconfig /all)

greetings Preßy

Maybe you have to set your BIOS to boot from the CD?

I installed using FTP. DHCP in FreeBSD setup program has been working fine for me. Are you sure your network interface is supported?

ok manage to install from dhcp now, but now when i gonna install i get an error message like this
Message
Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1457152 bytes)
then i press ok
then this shows up
User Confirmation Requested
Unable to transfer the base distribution from
ftp://ftp.se.freebsd.org

Do you want to try to retrive it again ?
YES NO
if i press yes the same thing is happen, if i press no it moves on to next files and same thing happens there
then when i press no some more times because i want to get back to the installer i get a message:
Coulden't crate directory /usr/src: No space left on device

now.
i've partition the drive at auto
so it crated /, /usr and all other
do u have any idea what i'm doing wrong ?

thx
/ekizz

Do you have the images on cd? If so, it isnt that hard of an install. Here are some tips. 1: when you start your computer, hold down delete, f2, or f10 i beleive, try delete first. This will take you to your bios settings. Make sure that it says Boot from cdrom. Then save and exit. 2: pop in the cd and go, its not too bad of an install, it will walk you through it. Hope i helped..... -nolan