From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 02:14:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C3B16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 02:14:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F39443D39 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 02:14:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out001.verizon.net ESMTP <20050208021447.TOXK29541.out001.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:14:47 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F36262CE747; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:10:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200502072107.38331.me@danielquinn.org> In-Reply-To: <200502072107.38331.me@danielquinn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502071810.44572.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:14:47 -0600 cc: daniel Subject: Re: cracked out floppy install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 02:14:49 -0000 On Monday 07 February 2005 06:07 pm, daniel wrote: > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer > on and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the > thing boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beastie > prompt where it counts down and is *supposed* to run sysinst but > instead, it just reboots! > > i even went out and bought a new set of floppies and it still doesn't > work, so i'm posting here. suggestions? comments? here's my specs: > > amd-k6 133mhz > 16mb ram > 4gb hd You could try to use freebsd-4.11. I had the same problem with tying to boot an amd-k6 450mhz from a FreeBSD-5.3 cdrom, yet it worked fine from a 4.10 cdrom. -Mike