From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 20:28:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA11185 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from blrp24.verifone.com (blrp24.VERIFONE.COM [148.5.4.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA11179 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@blrp24.verifone.com) Received: from blrp24 (jose@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blrp24.verifone.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA00262; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 10:03:24 +0530 Message-ID: <34766082.21C30978@blrp24.verifone.com> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 10:03:24 +0530 From: Jose Thomas Organization: VeriFone X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: jose@blrp24.verifone.com Subject: Installing FreeBSD : Cant go beyong identification of hardware Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD on my new PentiumII PC After I boot the floppy, it identifies all the hardware correctly (the netwok card - 3Com3C905, the HDD - Quantum Fireball ST4.3 ) the screen just goes blank and nothing happens. It should have shown the installation options screen. Also just before the screen goes blank, there was a hard disk access. When the hardware probing was going on, for the network card it says something like "mii : disable autoselect with DOS util". What does this mean. Could this be the problem? Also my HDD is 4110MB and i have partitioned as follows Primary : Win95 : 512M Primary : Linux : 256M Extended : Logical : Linux : 1G Logical : Linux : 512M Logical : Linux : 450M Logical : Linux Swap : 62M Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Jose