From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 31 10:02:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA29446 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:02:37 -0800 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.125.110]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA29434 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:02:35 -0800 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0rul1h-000r3uC; Fri, 31 Mar 95 10:02 PST Message-Id: To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0-950322-SNAP installation problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:02:27 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [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