Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:47:58 +0000 From: "" <bolski@netexp.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing freeBSD-3.1 Message-ID: <990427234758.ZM19567@phobos>
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That might be his problem or he has the same one I do. When I try to install on an HP Vectra VL and insert the mfsroot floppy, I get the same problem. However, if I take the exact same disks to a different computer (Not a Vectra VL), the root disk works fine. I think it's a problem with some floppy drives not telling FreeBSD (or FreeBSD not reading correctly) that a new disk has been inserted into the drive. I know this must be the case because I left the boot floppy in by mistake one time and it asked me if I wanted to continue booting or go to the command prompt. I did that and noticed the ls command. Without removing the boot floppy, I did an ls and it showed me the contents. When I then put the root floppy in and did an ls, it puked. I rebooted the system, came back to the command prompt and ls'ed the boot floppy, removed it and inserted the boot floppy back in and ls'ed it again. It puked. So, there's a problem here somewhere, just not sure how to rectify it. I downloaded the FreeBSD directory and burned a CD-ROM but of course, I can't boot from it. I didn't use that option. Hopefully, this can get fixed. Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:07:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Fabrizio Invernizzi <Fabrizio.Invernizzi@CSELT.IT> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Guardini Ivano <ivano.guardini@CSELT.IT> Subject: Re: Problems installing freeBSD-3.1 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 ---End of forwarded mail from Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ivan Samuelson * Staff Support Coordinator and * bolski@netexp.net Information Systems Consultant * Metro Information Services * http://www.netexp.net/~bolski http://www.MetroIS.com * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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