From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 13: 7:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C718215648 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03220; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:07:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Fabrizio Invernizzi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Guardini Ivano Subject: Re: Problems installing freeBSD-3.1 In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote: > Hi, > > I' m tring to install freeBSD-3.1-release on my system (with windows NT > installed) , so I formatted two floppies (with fdformat) and copy > kern.flp and msmfsroot.flp on them (using dd if= ...). > > I boot the kern.flp floppy and, when asked, I remove it and insert the > mfsroot.flp floppy, but the system alts showing me something like > > ... > ss=000x23 df=090w ... > ... > system halted > > How can I do? Where is my error? You downloaded the mfsroot image in ASCII mode, or the floppy is bad. Redownload the image and use a new floppy. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message