From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 10: 4:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tsunami.acidpit.org (tsunami.acidpit.org [206.190.163.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121B537B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rch@localhost) by tsunami.acidpit.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f94H4TF68715; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:04:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rch@acidpit.org) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:04:29 -0400 From: Robert Hough To: Hunter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with installation! Message-ID: <20011004130429.B68622@acidpit.org> Mail-Followup-To: Hunter , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1711826726.20011004193852@hotbox.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1711826726.20011004193852@hotbox.ru>; from hunter2k@hotbox.ru on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 19:38:52 +0400 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 On Thu, Oct 04, 2001, Hunter wrote: > > I've tried to solve these problems. As for the answers on my questions > - it seems to me that several people didn't understand me correctly. I think we understood just fine. I would say that you are not understanding us. We can go back and forth with this one for years, do you really want to? :) > 1) Disk1 (Install) - is the CD disk (not floppy) made from ISO image > (4.4-install.iso). And it's not bootable. I can't explain this. Maybe > you can? Make sure 1) your system can boot from cdrom... 2) your bios is configured with the correct boot sequence. Most systems default to floppy/hdd/cdr/misc 3) make sure the CHECKSUM.MD5 located in the same directory you downloaded the iso from, matches the downloaded iso... > 2) I've tried to install FreeBSD from DOS partition. All was well > till "signal 11 was caught... etc". This bullshit happened again. > I guess the problem doesn't concern CD itself (I mean CD surface) but > it does concern the installer. Perhaps if you told us what "etc" was, we could offer some more advice. Expand a bit on this, you might see a better response. I know, I'm guilty of doing the same thing all the time to. It just takes a friendly post to remind us. :) > 3) As for the floppies... hmm... floppy with kernel isn't identified > as bootable - strange but real I just downloaded the 4.4 floppies, and was able to boot just fine with them on my labrat machine. Sounds to me like 1) Your getting bad copies of this stuff or/and most likely 2) you have some hardware issues that need to be cleared up. -- Robert Hough (rch@acidpit.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message