From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 13:32:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16B3157EC for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05472; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:02:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:02:37 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jason Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 from CDROM In-Reply-To: <004201bf47d8$0d12b0e0$0101010a@stan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Jason wrote: > I downloaded the ISO from the bsd ftp site some time ago. Burned > it and made floppies using makeflp.bat. > > Now I have wo disks that I labeled Kernel and MFSRoot. When I > boot on the Kernel Disk It goes through some process with cryptic > information coming acrss the screen and a spinning icon thing made > up os slashes.....think this is a wait promt of some sort. This how we tell you things are ok loading from disk. > > After about 5 minutes it beeps and tells me to insert the MFSRoot > disk which I do and press enter. > > It goes through more of the above and then states that it will > reboot automatically in 10 seconds. This reboot was not mentioned > in any of the DOCs but I since there is no error message I let it > continue. This isn't what it says, it must say something else at least be more verbose about it. I think you most likely have a bad MFSroot floppy, try doing a DOS format on both disks you made and re-make the install disks if they format ok. currently the installer can't tolerate disks with bad sectors. > A complete reboot happens...Computer counts memory and then comes > up with the following message/prompt > > >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot > Default: 0fd(0,a)? > boot: > > There is no information in the DOCs as to what I should do at > this point. No matter what I type is always responds with > > . .. mfsroot.gz > >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot > Default: 0fd(0,a)? > boot: > > Do I have a bad ISO file here? bad install disk or what? > Any help you may provide will be greatly appreciated.. > Also for the record no internet access on this box will be > available...so FTP install will be impossible. Probably bad install floppies. As a side note please tell your mailer to wrap lines at 70 characters. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message