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Before you start with the installation you have to be sure that you DO NOT HAVE ANY IMPORTANT DATA ON THE DISK, AND IF YOU HAVE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD BACKUP OF YOUR DATA. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DATA LOST.
Start with your computer turned off.
Turn on the computer. As it starts it should display an option to enter the system set up menu, or BIOS, commonly reached by keys like F2, F10, Del, or Alt+S. Use whichever keystroke is indicated on screen. In some cases your computer may display a graphic while it starts. Typically, pressing Esc will dismiss the graphic and allow you to see the necessary messages.
Find the setting that controls which devices the system boots from. This is commonly shown as a list of devices, such as Floppy, CDROM, First Hard Disk, and so on.
If you needed to prepare boot floppies, then make sure that the floppy disk is selected. If you are booting from the CDROM then make sure that it is selected instead. In case of doubt, you should consult the manual that came with your computer, and/or its motherboard.
Make the change, then save and exit. The computer should now restart.
If you needed to prepare boot floppies, as described in Section 2.2.6 in Pre-Instalation Tasks then boot from floppyXX.fs, for normal system and if you have SCSI, RAID, PCMCIA or CARDBUS use the floppyBXX.fs or floppyCXX.fs. Put this disc in your floppy drive or if you have a bootable CD with MicroBSD put it in CD-ROM device.
If you are booting from CDROM, then you will need to turn on the computer, and insert the CDROM at the first opportunity.
If your computer starts up as normal, and loads your existing operating system then either:
The disks were not inserted early enough in the boot process. Leave them in, and try restarting your computer.
The BIOS changes earlier did not work correctly. You should redo that step until you get the right option.
MicroBSD 0.6 (RooTchO) #5: Sun Oct 6 14:38:01 EEST 2002
root@RooTchO.evil.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RooTchO
cpu0: Intel Pentium II ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 351 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR
real mem = 66686976 (65124K)
avail mem = 58675200 (57300K)
using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(06) BIOS, date 03/03/00, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0520
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xd92
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xf0d10/128 (6 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:04:0 ("Intel 82371FB PCI-ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX PCI-AGP" rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x03
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "S3 Trio3 DX2" rev 0x02
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x02
pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0:
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4892MB, 10602 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 10018890 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
"Intel 82371AB USB" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 4 function 2 not configured
"Intel 82371AB Power Mgmt" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 4 function 3 not configured
rl0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11 address 00:c0:26:79:72:05
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
biomask 4000 netmask 4800 ttymask 4802
pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
When your boot is successful, you will see a lot of white on blue text, the kernel telling you what devices have been found, and where. Then, you will see the following:
rootdev=0x1100 rrootdev=0x2f00 rawdev=0x2f02
erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? i
Welcome to the MicroBSD/i386 0.5 installation program.
This program is designed to help you put MicroBSD on your disk in a simple and
rational way.
As with anything which modifies your disk's contents, this program can cause
SIGNIFICANT data loss, and you are advised to make sure your data is backed
up before beginning the installation process.
Default answers are displayed in brackets after the questions. You can hit
Control-C at any time to quit, but if you do so at a prompt, you may have
to hit return. Also, quitting in the middle of installation may leave your
system in an inconsistent state. If you hit Control-C and restart the
install, the install program will remember many of your old answers.
Proceed with install? [n] y
Specify terminal type [vt220]: Enter
Do you wish to select a keyboard encoding table? [n] Enter
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