From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 20:45:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F2837BE15 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:45:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA85609; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:44:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:44:22 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Christiaan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big problems. Message-ID: <20000321234422.H85043@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <000001bf93a3$cd7c7020$8ca522c4@securenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <000001bf93a3$cd7c7020$8ca522c4@securenet>; from vision@nol.co.za on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:37:27PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:37:27PM +0200, Christiaan wrote: > Hi. > > I am installing FreeBSD 3.4 but the bootdisks dont work. How exactly don't they work? > I have downloaded them from the several biggest FTP sites. > I am installing FreeBSD 4.0 but the bootdisks dont work. How exactly don't they work? > I have downloaded them from the serveral biggest FTP SITES. > > Nothing seems to work... > When I did a cvsup for FBSD 3.4 to 4.0 it broke my whole box. Going from 3.4 to 4.0 is quite tricky. You should not be doing it for the first time on a production machine. It is questionable why you would be running 4.0 on a production machine at all. > Its a highly important mail server and its completly and utterly broken. > I wiped it already in attempt of an reinstall. > I never ever had problems like this with FBSD 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. 3.4 should be pretty much the same as other 3.x's. > I am using rawrite.exe to write my bootdisks. Dunno what that is. But do format the floppies again yourself before trying again. "Factory formatted" floppies have been known to be trouble. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message