From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 18:28:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32BC37B403 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11048 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2001 01:28:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mgm) ([216.27.148.137]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Sep 2001 01:28:25 -0000 Message-ID: <000d01c13f18$213b8b80$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> Reply-To: "jason" From: "jason" To: Subject: Missing Operating System Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:29:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 4 times in a row now I have had the same trouble. I have a old Pentium 100 box with 500MB SCSI drive which is not upgradeable because due to BIOS issues. I had a minimal BSD install and Sendmail running before but somehow screwed up Sendmail to the point it would not run anymore. I was trying to find a way to make sendmail relay for certain individuals who have accounts without having using their own email programs. Because things were so bad I decided to start over from scratch but am unable to boot the OS. Here is what I am doing: 1-Booted on Floppy created with latest flp files on the freebsd ftp site. 2-Selected auto for the partitioning and file system creation. 3-Selected minimal for install type. 4-Selected ftp.freebsd.org as install media source. 5-Selected Commit. It takes hours to download and install over my 144k IDSL line and when completed it asks if I want to view any post install options. I say no and exit the installer. It reboots and after the memory check it states "Missing Operating System" and freezes. I have done this 3 times now and have had the same result. The version it is trying to install is 4.3-Release (at least that's what it tells me. any ideas? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message