Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:25:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Ivan Samuelson <bolski@netexp.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD-3.1 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904281223150.22909-100000@loopback> In-Reply-To: <37272D8A.7138BA9D@ocsny.com>
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Yes, I KNOW I did because after the first boot, it asks for the root floppy. I don't think that would have happened had I booted the root floppy first... I think the answer was apparent when I said I booted the boot floppy first then inserted the root floppy when it asked for it... On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, pete collins wrote: > hey are you sure you used the floppies in the right order? > > kern.flp first > then > mfsroot.flp > next > > i'm sure you did > buy hey you never know > > pete > > Fabrizio Invernizzi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > As I told in my previus mail , I can' t install FreeBSD 3.1 on my PC. > > > > This is exactly what I did: > > > > 1- I downloaded via FTP (not using NETSCAPE and in BINARY MODE) kern.flp > > and > > mfsroot.flp. > > 2- I formatted 2 (new) floppies with : fdformat /dev/rfd0 (I tried > > with different floppies) > > 3- I copied the two files on the floppies with : dd if=___.flp > > of=/dev/rfd0 > > 4- I boot the PC with the kern floppy into the drive > > 5- When the bootstrap loader asks me for the MFS root floppy I inserted it > > and press enter, but the result was: > > > > int=0000000e err=00000004 elf=00030246 eip=00002147 > > eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 > > esi=0000a9a3 edi=0000a9a3 epb=000003e8 esp=000003de > > cs=ebce ds=0040 es=f000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 > > cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 > > ss:esp=00 f0 6a 21 37 29 9e 25-a3 a9 00 00 fe 9d a3 a9 > > System halted > > > > I tried the same floppies on two other PCs: they works only on one of > > them (the one they didn' t work onto gave the same problem). > > > > I tried also with the boot.flp of the 2.2.8-RELEASE and this works fine. > > > > Can anyone help me? > > > > Fabrizio Invernizzi > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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