From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 11:38:02 2003 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 0CFD016A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from fishersinternet.php4hosting.com (uk-server2.carpediem-it.co.uk [193.111.226.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE37E43FBD for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mobiletiw@fishersinter.net) Received: from fishersinter.net (82-37-91-111.cable.ubr04.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk [82.37.91.111]) by fishersinternet.php4hosting.com (8.12.10) with ESMTP id hA2Jbwja024771 sender mobiletiw@fishersinter.net for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:37:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3FA55C4F.1040006@fishersinter.net> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:34:39 +0000 From: Adrian Fisher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Installation problems 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: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:38:02 -0000 Please note I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.1 onto a blank system. The system is a Soltek Cubic system with an Athlon 2600+, 512MB DDR RAM, DVD drive and CD-R/W as well as an 80GB HDD and a 40GB one. I have followed the instructions in the book I bought (FreeBSD Unleashed) to the letter but still cannot complete a full installation. I get no error messages at all but still find the installation does not complete as I cannot get it to install a boot record so I have not been able to get it to boot from the HDD. What is wrong? I have tried with both the CD from the book and also an image I downloaded from the net. Please help. Thanks in advance. Adrian.