Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:02:27 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0-950322-SNAP installation problem Message-ID: <m0rul1h-000r3uC@main.statsci.com>
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[Amancio Hasty suggested to me that this might be a better place to send
this than -current, so here goes. Rereading this, I wonder if it could be
a problem RAWRITEing a 1.2Mb image onto a 1.4Mb 3.5" diskette & something
getting done wrong in the process??]
Hi-
I just pulled down the 950322-SNAP tree to use as my first attempt at
installing FreeBSD on my home system. That system is:
Pentium-90; 16 Mb RAM; 256K cache
CAF Tech motherboard / SiS chipset / Award 4.50G BIOS
PCI IDE - boot disk
NCR 8150S PCI SCSI - Toshiba 3501 CDROM, Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm drive
ATI Mach64 (2Mb)/17" display
Sound Blaster AWE32
network card (can "be" NE2000 among other personalities)
floppy/2S/1P/game card
one 3.5" floppy drive; no 5.25" floppy drive
I've tried using both RAWRITE & RAWRITE3 from the tools/dos-tools
directory to put a gunzip'd boot.flp.gz onto a 3.5" diskette, then boot
from that. My first attempt (with RAWRITE) ended up having my boot
process completely ignore the inserted diskette. My 2nd & 3rd attempts
using RAWRITE3 ended up just sitting there spinning the diskette drive for
a while before I came back and tried CTRL-ALT-DEL with no results and the
RESET button. I then pulled the boot floppy out. The reboot sequence got
to the point where I think it normally scans the system & spits out the
NCR SDMS BIOS banner (from my NCR 8150S card) and just hung. I power
cycled and got the same hang. I then turned the system off for a while
(hours) and turned it back on - it came up fine.
So, does anyone have any idea
1) what I'm doing wrong?
2) how I can do it right?
3) what the heck is happening here?
Thanx!
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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