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Subject: Re: 5.4-release install problem
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On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>Greetings,
>I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website.
>I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to
>cd's.
>
>I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on.
>It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive.
>
>I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine.
>When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device.
>When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like
>dump info.  It scrolls on and on.

If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again 
that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load. 
sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD.

>Any ideas on the problem ?

So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the 
handbook at: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ?

>thanks,
>Darryl

Bryan
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